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by jbarciauskas 2501 days ago
Zoom is also up 50% since it went public in April, and Crowdstrike is up 70%.

I don't really get the sense in comparing a bunch of companies with disparate financials and very different industries. The We Company is a real estate company trying to convince people it's a tech company. This list mixes B2C and B2B companies, SaaS platforms with monthly recurring revenue with companies with advertising-based business models. Almost none of these organizations are reasonably comparable.

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I would expect something described as a real estate company to be long, well, real estate. As I understand it We is short real estate.
I forgot about the shell company bit on their long-term leases. In any case, they are in the business of managing and reselling real estate, whatever the time horizon.
But if they all feed from the same pool of money who are looking to invest in "tech", then they are related.