WeWork, every mention
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every year 2022 anyone Ben Gilbert 7David Rosenthal 6Packy McCormick 3Peter Fenton 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where WeWork comes up
Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired
- ▶ 1:54:10 Peter Fenton I've read these books about us at Uber or Twitter or WeWork.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 2:24 Ben Gilbert Semiconductor and networking companies like Synopsys and Juniper Networks, and of course, in the next generation, OpenTable, Zillow, Twitter, Instagram, Uber, WeWork, Snap, Riot Games, Asana, Discord, New Relic, and our friends of the show…
- ▶ 2:49:16 David Rosenthal Uber, Snap, Discord, that gaming company, Stitch Fix, Duo Security, Docker, Elastic, Nextdoor, and WeWork.
- ▶ 2:49:25 Ben Gilbert And WeWork, I mean, at the time that they got Liquid, I do think it was a very, very, very profitable investment for them.
- ▶ 2:55:25 Ben Gilbert Even this knowing when to sell thing, WeWork, they sold a lot of WeWork shares to SoftBank, and I think it's actually still part of some ongoing litigation.
- ▶ 2:55:36 Ben Gilbert But, as an aside actually on WeWork, I was watching a video with Peter Fenton, and he said, we were involved with WeWork.
- ▶ 2:55:50 Ben Gilbert I almost feel like we're just not gonna get into WeWork on this episode.
- ▶ 3:02:31 David Rosenthal And then I think the last one, and I think this obviously, right, like the Uber situation and the WeWork situation too, to a certain extent, but obviously the Uber situation is the end of the Fab Four era.
- ▶ 3:41:47 Ben Gilbert They're good at understanding the intrinsic value of something, which I think is why we saw them dump WeWork, why they were holding OpenTable while still public,
Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
- ▶ 18:58 Packy McCormick Just the WeWork thing, and we competed with them, and what a wonderful company, but, um, but still, eight billion dollars of home that Open Door did last year.
Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
- ▶ 1:07:16 David Rosenthal Interestingly, at the IPO happens right after the whole WeWork debacle, which we covered on this show with Dan Primack, also a big Peloton fan, uh, at the time that was, that was fun.
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:31:44 David Rosenthal They're recommended by Silicon Valley Bank, WeWork, Carta, Brex, and more.