I worked for a startup that was based on the east coast but trying to build their presence on the west coast. We looked into a lot of options including visiting

I worked for a startup that was based on the east coast but trying to build their presence on the west coast. We looked into a lot of options including visiting several WeWork offices to look into having a virtual office or a mailing address at the very least. We wanted to use WeWork but it was too expensive to be practical for us, and we ended up getting a deal with a local coworking space. I imagine this was the case for most startups looking to start an office out of WeWork. So I'm inclined to agree with you that the demand was there, but the execution was poor.