#164: The Rise And Fall Of WeWork

English Learning for Curious Minds

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It is the coworking company that was once valued at over $50 billion, but then came spectacularly crashing down.

In this episode, we'll learn about the amazing rise and fall of the company that tried to make office space cool.

• The questions that WeWork gets us thinking about
• WeWork at its peak
• The founding of WeWork in 2010
• Who was Adam Neumann?
• Who was Miguel McKelvey
• How WeWork as a business worked
• Making office space cool
• WeWork attracting billions of dollars in investment
• Meeting Mayoshi Son
• The vision continues to grow, and The We Company is born
• Was WeWork a tech company?
• Burning through money
• Things start to go wrong
• Looking under the hood
• The collapse of WeWork
• The phoenix to rise from the flames?

Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/wework

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