Gurley: Benchmark committed to WeWork 30 minutes into Adam Neumann's pitch
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Bill Gurley recalls Benchmark's initial decision to invest in Adam Neumann's WeWork despite the firm having no prior history in real estate investments.
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“Benchmark's never done a real estate transaction in the history of the firm, and We're about 30 minutes into the presentation. This is series eight, right? So there's almost nothing there. And I knew we were going to do the deal, like without even talking to the partners, because I mentioned we, when we started, we talked about salesmanship and he has a level of salesmanship that I had never seen before.”
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