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So why does everyone so interested in WeWork's IPO evaluation? Non trying to be sassy just genuinely curious why articles like seems are so regularly posted.
by impalallama 7y ago
So why does everyone so interested in WeWork's IPO evaluation? Non trying to be sassy just genuinely curious why articles like seems are so regularly posted.
- enraged_camel 7y agoWeWork is used by many startups and remote developers, and HN has plenty of those. In addition, it has irked a lot of techies that WeWork is claiming to be a technology company (they are actually a traditional real estate biz) and a lot of their valuation is based on that aura.
- cagenut 7y agothe same reason we obsess over cloudflare but ignore akamai and fastly. or obsess over tesla and ignore BYD. wework is familiar and accessible to people here.
- duxup 7y agoTo some extent Uber is like watching a Unicorn car accident, you can't look away. It also is a good example of these dirty Unicorns that are not unlike Uber where folks for quite a while wonder "How can you be profitable and operate like that?" and we're all amazed the market keeps rewarding them ... and it seems like we're to the point where the market might not reward them.
- jellicle 7y agoWile E. Coyote has run off the edge of the cliff and yet his legs are still going and he isn't falling. But at some point he will stop, look down, look at the camera, and then fall a long, long way. We're just waiting for the look down.