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WeWTF, Part Deux

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Re: WeWTF, Part Deux

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phyzome wrote: post #28
rzzzt wrote: post #3

The company name should be highlighted in the text somehow; in its current form, it sounds like an eloquent Gollum's internal monologue in my head. I found myself having to re-read quite a few sentences. "We has gone from unicorn to distressed asset"

Similarly, Yahoo insists on being called "Yahoo!" in their branding guidelines, but it just makes the writer look like an idiot. There's no reason you have to stick to the chosen name of a corporation if the chosen name is cutesy and dumb. :-)

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Re: WeWTF, Part Deux

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Post by bob33212 »

wpietri wrote: post #116
tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #105

What makes WeWork so unique and powerful that it managed to paint itself as a unicorn? AirBnB has network effect for the huge market of "a place to sleep at while travelling". This requires matching customers with providers frequently, and the same customer will use the same platform and a different provider. Uber has the same for "a car to take me somewhere". Again, repeat customers, different provider every time. W…

I think Uber is a big cause of the problem here. Companies like Google and Facebook got investors thinking that a tech thing that a lot of people used must be worth a lot of money. Uber came along and legitimately made something that a lot of people loved, and if you didn't look too hard, it looked like a tech thing. Plus it spent years getting bigger and bigger rounds of investment, so it looked like a rock star. Ev…

I think Apple is a bigger driver of the investment than Google or FB. When the first IPOD came out few investors saw that Jobs was executing on a vision that would create a trillion dollar company. Those same type of investors are afraid of missing the next Jobs. A CEO is better off taking actions which will cause investors to think she may be the next Jobs.

And they are right to be afraid, engineering advances can be unpredictable. What if a AI developer at TSLA discovers a new approach to reinforcement learning tomorrow? Or what if Holmes had found the Einstein of blood science?

Re: WeWTF, Part Deux

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Post by manigandham »

dannyw wrote: post #115
mdorazio wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who the hell is signing 10 year leases? 5 is standard. And why don't you have a good relationship with the landlord? I've always been able to upgrade to a larger space without needing to hold onto the previous lease long-term (just until another tenant is found). Granted, if you need truly flexible amount of space on a sub-yearly basis (both up and down), WeWork or other co-los are a better model despite the huge pri…

We are moving to a more flexible world, eg AWS. It’s not unreasonable to seek, prioritise and expect flexibility in office space. Why _do I_ have to sign a 5 year lease?

You don't. There are tons of flexible space options and have been for a very long time. WeWork is nothing new, just an expensive and shiny veneer over existing services.

Re: WeWTF, Part Deux

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Post by fastball »

jannes wrote: post #123
fastball wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You just need to ignore the terrible proof-reading.

Do you work for We Work?

??

No? I enjoyed the article. But it has a ton of mistakes. The last two paragraphs are literally repeated, in addition to all the spelling / grammar mistakes. Many people have also pointed this out in the comments of the article, and somehow the author hasn't fixed it.

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