[whack]

Why so angry? This "looser" was a guy who built a company from the ground up into something that is now a unicorn. a16z is hardly a gullible investor that is falling naively for some schmoozer. Who exactly are you worried he's going to exploit?

[larksimian]

How is this meme of WeWork being a unicorn taken seriously?! They raised $22 billion and currently are valued at under $10 billion. All of that valuation is probably the real estate they bought.

I can literally give you better returns. Give me $20 billion and I'll give you $11 bill back.

Insulting to people who have actually built unicorns to put WeWork in the same category.

[vu0tran]

ehh... to be fair, lots of companies did much worse. Lots of companies in Fintech during the run up.

[wahnfrieden]

it's a landlording scheme, it's obvious

[ttyprintk]

A legit but marginal worry is that Neumann is convincing enough that he will, at some point, succeed in a government bailout.