WeWork, every mention
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every year 2022 anyone David Friedberg 28Jason Calacanis 21Chamath Palihapitiya 5David Sacks 2Mar Hershenson 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where WeWork comes up
E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
- ▶ 7:42 David Friedberg You know, in the same sort of vibe, quality, and attention to experience as maybe was intended with WeWork. 10 times in the scene
E91: SoftBank's $21B+ Vision Fund loss, signals of a bubble, macro picture, Trump raided by FBI
- ▶ 5:52 Jason Calacanis You remember, of course, and he complained a little bit in the in this whole thing about how there was a giant bubble without ever recognizing that he kind of created the bubble with a four billion dollar check to WeWork at a forty seven… 3 times in the scene
E86: Macro outlook: jobs, housing, inflation + Dutch farmers protests & EU climate missteps
- ▶ 13:27 David Sacks And this is why it turns out that WeWork was a pretty bad business model is because if you're, if all your leases are month to month, and you hit a recession, your revenue gets whammied.
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- ▶ 55:27 Jason Calacanis We work.
#AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders
- ▶ 22:46 Mar Hershenson Even the wife of the founder of WeWork is more famous in some circles.
E81: All-In Summit: Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner on markets, downturns & investment cycles
- ▶ 30:44 Jason Calacanis Well, I mean, and then also we, we have the issue of selling and secondary when those opportunities arise, and we all just watched the We Crashed documentary, which one of your partners, um, plays a role in, I don't know, obviously it's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:53 Chamath Palihapitiya I remember you telling me, this was, I don't know, in the height of WeWork,
E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- ▶ 32:11 David Friedberg But on the other hand, the whole pro founder model led to the, the WeWork and Ubers of the world that, you know, I think.
E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- ▶ 1:02:48 Jason Calacanis I'll say there was a 3.5 in there, which is you saw a little bit of lack of governance or superpowers on the part of like some incompetent founders or bad founders, just, you know, whether it's, we work there in us, whatever, too much…
E63: Insurrection indictments, human rights in the US and abroad, groundbreaking MS study and more
- ▶ 1:17:16 Jason Calacanis I mean, I think this is like a Theranos or WeWork overreaction, which is like,