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Ghibli: WeWork hosted 50 to 100 private rental events weekly across US

Gil Ghibli · Why he regrets selling 30% equity in $200k pre seed round · Jan 14, 2023 · at 7:14

Gil Ghibli, founder of Run of Show and former private events lead at WeWork, discusses the scale of private event rentals he oversaw across nationwide WeWork facilities.

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“I would say that every week we probably had close to 50 to a hundred events across the country of folks that rented out WeWork spaces.”

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