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WeWork was conceived as a global entrepreneur network from its inception
“Adam Miguel's vision was always to build a company that was going to be this global professional network of entrepreneurs and small business owners”
Evaluating venture capital investor performance takes five to ten years
“Knowing if you're any good at venture takes, you know, five years, seven years, sometimes 10 years, so I can't really speak for if I'm”
YC startup Squire grew revenue 40x within months of Middleton's investment
“One of my more recent investments And so it's a company called Squire, who is currently in Y Combinator about the demo in a couple of weeks. And these are just two incredible founders, Dave and Song, who have started from zero startup experience to now having …”
Flybridge invested in roughly 80 of 19,000 evaluated companies over 15 years
“There's also, we actually have a lot of data. Flybridge has been around for 15 years. In, in our deal flow product, we have We've documented over 19,000 companies that we've looked at. That's an incredible number. I mean, I wouldn't have guessed that if you wo…”
WeWork's second location opened with unfinished construction for 220 members
“In that moment, a story that I can't think about is, is the way that our members handled when we moved to our second We work labs location, which was on Varick street. And we walked into the building on opening day and construction wasn't done. We had 220 peop…”
WeWork tests and iterates on physical spaces directly with live members
“And we learned that people were more resilient than we thought, which actually led us down the path of now we're able to test and iterate on physical spaces inside of WeWork with real members sometimes because we know they're willing to sort of participate in …”