A small team could have written all the software for WeWork to do what it actually does. Each location could run it on an Intel NUC or similar. Central cloud co

A small team could have written all the software for WeWork to do what it actually does. Each location could run it on an Intel NUC or similar. Central cloud could be moderately sized, maybe a dozen instances. That would be efficient, but ironically it would not have attracted so much investment because fewer buzzwords. It would have been a better way to run a business that sells office space but a less effective way to run a business that sells its stock. In a top heavy severely demand constrained economy it is far more profitable to sell stock than goods or services.