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Infrastructure and software are hard.

• nopriorarrests 7y ago
  What hard problems related to software and infrastructure WeWork was solving? I can not imagine a single one. Handling check-ins? Counting number of beers consumed?
  • illuminati1911 7y ago
    "Counting number of beers consumed?" This spring I talked to their software engineering manager/lead at a tech meetup in Shanghai (the guy was from SF) and he said that they plan to hire tens of engineers just to analyze their beer consumption data to optimize supply.
    • nopriorarrests 7y ago
      This should be top level comment.
    • codesushi42 7y ago
      SF is the only place in the country where you could say that with a straight face. In fact, that guy has probably long since left and is doing his own beer analytics startup.
• egdod 7y ago
  Being a landlord doesn’t require much in the way of bespoke infrastructure and software.