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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: commitment
25 Oct 2019 Acquired The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)
“Here on this episode, we will dive into the existential question of, if WeWork, a once $47 billion company, can be saved by SoftBank's effective acquisition of the company.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- commitment
- Recorded
- 25 Oct 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…I'm David Rosenthal and I am a general partner at Wave Capital, an early-stage venture firm focused on marketplaces based in San Francisco. We are your hosts. Today we tell an episode that in our initial Season 5 planning calendar we had as an IPO episode. That was pitifully cancelled. We were just going to tell the crazy story of the antics that got it here. Now, it's shaping up to be a tried and true acquisition episode for us. Here on this episode, we will dive into the existential question of, if WeWork, a once $47 billion company, can be saved by SoftBank's effective acquisition of the company. We are going to try to accomplish two goals. First, to dive into the history of this company from the very beginning. Second, to try and see the core economic forest through the under-governed trees, and understand precisely the position that the business is in today. Listeners, Dan's face during all this is priceless. If we only we were a video podcast.…
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