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Neumann’s Bid for WeWork 3/26/24

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Management, Cnbc, Tech, Faang, Investing, Business, Disruptors, Technology

4.566 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The saga of WeWork continues. Former CEO Adam Neumann is putting in a bid, along with half a dozen financing partners, to buy the now-bankrupt co-working company for more than $500 million, according to CNBC sources. But where is that money coming from, and who are the financing partners that would back Neumann after the high-profile WeWork implosion?

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0:00.0

More new drama in the saga of We Work. This time former CEO Adam Newman

0:08.2

submitting an offer to buy the now bankrupt co-working company for more than

0:12.0

five hundred million dollars. Dear D'Ribosa has details. now bankrupt working company for more than $500 million.

0:13.7

Deirdreboza has details in today's Tech Check.

0:16.5

We're going to need some sequels on all those series and documentaries.

0:21.0

Yeah, this is like the series that doesn't end. So Newman, yes, he is still trying to buy back. We work, but let me just say this is far from a done deal. For starters, financing is still unclear. A spokesperson from FLO that is

0:34.1

Newman's current startup says that two weeks ago a coalition of half a dozen

0:38.1

financing partners submitted a potential bid. Potential being the keyword here

0:42.0

meaning conditional. A source tells me

0:44.2

that Wie Wie Wie Wie Wie Wie Wie Wie Wie Wie Wie Wie Wie Wie Wie Wie W

0:51.4

that is public. Its latest 8K filing shows

0:54.2

$10.8 billion in assets, $9.8 billion in liabilities. In January, the company

0:59.4

brought in about 90 million in revenue and lost $150 million.

1:05.7

Bottom line, this is a company that's still struggling and bleeding cash.

1:09.6

To buy the company out of bankruptcy, a source tells C. M. C.

1:12.2

that Newman's bid could go up to $900 million,

1:15.7

raising the question, where does that money come from and who are those dozen

1:19.7

financing partners? Newman, Norflow, are willing to say, and I can rule out Dan Lobe's third

1:25.0

point who was mentioned in a letter last month as a potential partner, but there's

1:29.2

one big name that has given money to Newman post-Wework in Plocean and that is Silicon Valley

1:34.0

VC and recent Horwitz. In the largest individual check the firm has ever

1:38.7

written in a round of funding to any company it invested about 350 million dollars at a one billion dollar

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