Karan Virwani

CEO, WeWork India · 1 appearance on the record.

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Karan Virwani introduced and scaled WeWork in the Indian market beginning in 2017 via a partnership with his family's real estate business, Embassy Group. Under his leadership, WeWork India expanded into a profitable flex-workspace network spanning major metropolitan hubs across the country.

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5 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 7 assertions · 3 opinions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 7 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Karan argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up

Virwani: Indian REITs will see higher appreciation than US REITs

“India will see higher appreciation, I would say, than foreign REITs, or like, you know, the US REITs and things like that, so.”

Karan Virwani Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 1:26:47 Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said13 Episodes1

Everything Karan Virwani said on WTF is with Nikhil Kamath that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

Virwani: Adam Neumann is the greatest salesman in the world

“Adam is I would say, The greatest salesman in the world, and that's what I was, you know, telling you as well, where he had it's one of those few people that you meet, I think, like, in the world where you can feel the energy, like, you know, from having a con…”

Karan Virwani Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 2:01:29 Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath

Opinion

Virwani: Real Estate Supply Cannot Outpace Demand Due to 7-Year Cycles

“It's not physically possible to even just build, you know, that type of capacity where you would, where supply would outpace the demand. So the time it takes to just put up an apartment or like get the approvals and all that is like, you know, five, seven year…”

Karan Virwani Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 47:10 Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath

Prediction Held up

Virwani: Indian REITs will see higher appreciation than US REITs

“India will see higher appreciation, I would say, than foreign REITs, or like, you know, the US REITs and things like that, so.”

Karan Virwani Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 1:26:47 Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath

Assertion Supported

Virwani: India is Blackstone's most profitable market outside the US

“India has been very, very successful for them. I think it's been their most profitable market outside of the US.”

Karan Virwani Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 2:54:33 Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath

Assertion Partly supported

Virwani: Mercedes builds its complete car interactive system in India

“Mercedes as an example, the entire unit, the entire interactive system in every Mercedes car gets built. You know, out of India.”

Karan Virwani Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 3:15:03 Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Karan Virwani: Indian family businesses will transition to professional public enterprises

“India is sort of where, and you know, my dad also says it's like where America maybe was in the eighties or seventies or eighties, where most companies were family businesses. They will slowly transition into, you know, being public. I think your world also ge…”

Karan Virwani Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 38:30 Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath

Opinion

Virwani: Single-Asset Fractional Real Estate Carries High Concentration Risk Compared to REITs

“I wouldn't because you're still then limited to one asset versus in a, in an actual REIT. You know, I'm distributed across geographies.”

Karan Virwani Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 1:32:15 Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath

Assertion Supported

Virwani: Indian Commercial Office Rentals Stayed Around $1/sq ft for 20 Years

“When you look at it in terms of from a multinational, you know, spend standpoint, India is still pretty much like one dollar rentals. They've been one dollar rentals for the last, you know, 20 years.”

Karan Virwani Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 2:43:41 Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath

Assertion Supported

Virwani: Real estate accounts for 30% of all emissions

“See, I think that like, yeah, I mean, 30, 30% of all emissions is really from real estate.”

Karan Virwani Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 1:02:47 Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath

Assertion Partly supported

Virwani: WeWork India operates nearly 8 million square feet across 60 locations

“We operate almost like eight million square foot. We just opened our sixtieth location last week.”

Karan Virwani Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 2:41:23 Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath

Assertion Supported

Virwani: Embassy remains WeWork India's largest shareholder with WeWork Global owning 27%

“So, Embassy is still the largest shareholder. We started off owning hundred percent of it, and we've also invested, like, you know, pretty much all of our own capital, until twenty-twenty, where we were Put in some money. You know, they put in about a hundred …”

Karan Virwani Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 2:41:57 Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Virwani: WeWork India Fitout Capex Is ₹2,500 to ₹2,800 Per Square Foot

“We spent close to about 2500 bucks a square foot. 2800 bucks depending on the location.”

Karan Virwani Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 2:42:53 Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath

Disclosure

Virwani: Hot desking is only about 3% of WeWork India's business

“That's a very, very small percentage. It's only about three percent of our entire.”

Karan Virwani Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 2:45:15 Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Ep. #20 \| WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nik	Oct 11, 2024	41m

Karan Virwani

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