4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Please enjoy my monologue We Work and SoftBank and Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio. This episode may also include great outside guests from my archive.
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0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Coval. |
0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
0:33.5 | We work. |
0:35.4 | A company that I have not paid attention to since its founding. Maybe the founding |
0:41.7 | was 2011. But I have paid attention to it recently. Its IPO has been scuttle. No IPO planned. |
0:58.5 | If you go read some of the stories online and take a peek at the financials, looks like this thing is destined for the graveyard. If you're not familiar with this baby, |
1:04.5 | it was something to the effect of let's have all these co-working office spaces around the world. |
1:13.7 | Let's give business owners, landlords, the security of long-term 15-year leases. |
1:20.5 | And then all the woke millennials will roll in to drink free coffee and free beer while they work on their freelance gig opportunities. |
1:31.3 | They will then hold hands, kumbaya, and wear their gender appropriate name tags and everyone |
1:39.1 | will have pronouns that are appropriate as well. |
1:44.7 | This was the vision of a very long-haired guy who seems to have been the ringleader of |
1:53.0 | something really special, at least for a brief moment in time. |
1:57.8 | And now that time seems to be up. |
2:02.1 | I'm not here to reign on anyone's parade or say somebody was bad for taking a high-risk investment. |
2:09.9 | That's not what the point is. |
2:13.3 | In January of 2019, we work as a private company was valued at $47 billion. |
2:21.6 | But then as it headed towards IPO status in the summer of 2019, the financials became clear. |
2:29.1 | The due diligence uncovered a governance structure that was laughable to say the least. And now running out of money, |
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