Not to mention all the "founders" who got to spend their days in a cool exciting office, and feel like they themselves were working at the next Facebook or Goog

Not to mention all the "founders" who got to spend their days in a cool exciting office, and feel like they themselves were working at the next Facebook or Google. I don't know much about the WeWork demographics. I wonder how many of these companies were venture-funded, self-funded... and how many were just elaborate schemes for burning through trust funds. I'm sure many of them were hardworking people with legit businesses, and just saw this as a convenient and cool way to solve the problem of where to get their work done.