Miguel McKelvey
25 statements across 8 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 19, 2017 by Miguel McKelvey · said 31 times in 3 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2024 18 mentions in 1 episode
2018 6 mentions in 1 episode
2017 7 mentions in 1 episode
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Jun 19, 2017
McKelvey: Created GreenDesk's branding, website, and collateral in one night
“So basically I go home and I start thinking of a concept of a name, come up with green desk, which is office space oriented towards people who are environmentally responsible. I buy the domain, you know, I build a website. I designed some floor plans, really s…”
Jun 19, 2017
McKelvey: Grew up in Oregon collective of five mothers without fathers
“There were five women who were all really good friends, you know, best friends for a long time. They had all pretty much decided to have children without the fathers in the picture just because it was a time when they wanted to break free from normal sort of a…”
Jun 19, 2017 bullish
McKelvey claimed WeWork was a 100-year company, not built to sell
“And Adam and I, like, we, when we talked about this, we're like, this is a hundred year challenge. It's not like, hey, we're building a company so we can sell it and move on. We're doing this because we think this is the most interesting and biggest challenge …”
Jun 19, 2017 neutral
Jun 19, 2017 positive
Jun 19, 2017
WeWork secured a $45M valuation before signing its first lease
“And we had no building. We had no signed lease, even, and we proposed a forty-five million dollar valuation. And that's pretty high for a business that is unproven. And so he said, yes, you know, he said, okay, I want to be a third partner.”
Sep 11, 2017
WeWork co-founder Miguel McKelvey and Barre3 founder Sadie Lincoln are siblings
“By the way, if her childhood story sounded somewhat familiar, it's probably because you heard her brother Miguel's version on a previous episode of this show. He's Miguel McKelvey, founder of the multi-billion dollar company WeWork. Miguel also grew up in that…”
Sep 3, 2018
Miguel McKelvey: I was raised in an all-women collective without fathers
“There were five women who were all really good friends, you know, best friends for a long time. They had all pretty much decided to have children without the fathers in the picture just because it was a time when they wanted to break free from normal sort of a…”
Sep 3, 2018
McKelvey: Green Desk branding, website, and business model created overnight
“I go home and I start thinking of a concept of a name, come up with green desk, which is office space oriented towards people who are environmentally responsible. I buy the domain, you know, I build a website. I designed some floor plans, really simple do like…”
Sep 3, 2018
Sep 3, 2018
Sep 3, 2018 bullish
McKelvey: WeWork is a hundred-year challenge, not built to be sold
“And Adam and I, like, we, when we talked about this, we're like, this is a hundred year challenge. It's not like, hey, we're building a company so we can sell it and move on. We're doing this because we think this is the most interesting and biggest challenge …”
Sep 3, 2018 positive
Sep 3, 2018 neutral
Sep 3, 2018
McKelvey: WeWork Secured a $45M Valuation Commitment Before Signing Its First Lease
“And we had no building, we had no signed lease even, and we proposed a forty-five million dollar valuation. And that's pretty high for a business that is unproven, and so he said yes. You know, he said, okay, I want to be a third partner, and so I'll commit to…”
Nov 5, 2018 neutral
Apr 21, 2022 negative
McKelvey: Vilifying and punishing Adam Neumann for mistakes does not serve society
“You can look at Adam as an example of a person who did a bunch of things and was attacked and vilified and sort of canceled. There was some shadow in him, and there's some shadow in me, there's some shadow in all of us, and what's the best thing is for us to b…”
Apr 21, 2022 negative
McKelvey would not co-found another company with Adam Neumann
“I don't think that I would primarily because it doesn't support my own journey. I put myself into that second position because of a lot of insecurity and things that I thought I couldn't do. And so being around a person who's very much an alpha, you know, is v…”
Apr 21, 2022
Apr 21, 2022 positive
Apr 21, 2022 neutral
McKelvey: WeWork's massive pre-IPO losses were deliberate investments in growth
“The challenge that we are facing is that it's not that those losses were a surprise. They were by design. You know, again, we were a fast growing company and we were investing in our growth. And so we were making the decision to lose money.”
Jul 1, 2024 positive
WeWork Co-Founder Miguel McKelvey Acquired a Controlling Stake in American Giant
“And he's now our main investor. And I think it was a condition on his investment that he wanted to be able to really have a long-term view about How to build something great and be able to do the things that he felt were important. And so it was really importa…”
Mar 5, 2026
Mar 5, 2026