WeWork, every mention
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- ▶ 12:28 Alex Lieberman Yeah, so I, I go to John's office, which at the time was a, uh, tiny, like, closet of a WeWork space, and it was him, Peter Gornstein, who was his co-founder and the chief content officer, and I get there, and I think the conversation is…
- ▶ 35:00 Alex Lieberman And I remember one day we're in, we work, I get a message from Austin on Slack saying, Hey, one of our investors who is this guy, Scott, who, uh, 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 53:53 Shaan Puri WeWork was valued at a tech, as a tech company, but it's actually a real estate company.
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- ▶ 4:56 Sam Parr So in 18 or 19, something like that, he sells meetup.com to WeWork.
- ▶ 19:22 Shaan Puri And it goes on for a long time until they sell for, to we work for, I don't know, 150 to two hundred million bucks. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:04 Shaan Puri Meetup then gets carved out of WeWork, and so this brings up, this connects two other data points of our podcast. 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 18:51 Shaan Puri You thought WeWork was a good idea.
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- ▶ 43:22 Shaan Puri Well, no, because if you could be Adam Neumann and you could walk away with, I don't know what he walked away with, over a billion dollars, I think, out of the WeWork thing, and maybe his reputation is tarnished, but this guy's got a…
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- ▶ 26:27 Shaan Puri He's the founder of WeWork who was like, kind of like whatever did a bunch of shit and ended up walking away, kind of like drove the company into a weird spot and, and, and was accused of a lot of things.
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- ▶ 0:51 Sam Parr Adam Neumann, the founder of WeWork, and how he's got this, like, crazy, hypnotic personality, and I love learning about that.
- ▶ 3:36 Sam Parr And he had this company called Spacious, which he sold for, um, he sold to WeWork, and I imagine he sold it for a lot of money because when I called him, it was like noon East Coast time, and he was just going for a bike ride. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:22 Shaan Puri You can shit on WeWork, but in reality, I think that there are going to be winners in that space.
- ▶ 14:39 Sam Parr Um, so WeWork was run by this guy named Adam Newman. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:53 unnamed speaker I think you guys bring a unique perspective to that, and having worked in WeWork, it's exciting to know that there are some, I guess, new opportunities, and that whole concept isn't gonna die, uh, with WeWork. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 30:12 Sam Parr So basically at a, we work, you know, how they like you swipe your credit card and you only take one sandwich for eight dollars.
- ▶ 33:41 Shaan Puri You said we work things like that.