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It was poorly allocated capital. Akin to building an expensive bridge to nowhere. Sometimes there are silver linings to those situations - eg dark fibre after t
by cturner 3y ago
It was poorly allocated capital. Akin to building an expensive bridge to nowhere. Sometimes there are silver linings to those situations - eg dark fibre after the dot com crash. Here there will be discounted coworking space. Regardless, failure in the market demonstrates that there are better things the effort could have gone to as far as we know at this moment. Therefore it's justified to say that value was lost.
- throwaway290 3y agoPoorly allocated indeed. I still remember the outrage over how the founder of WeWork used the company to buy stuff like branding assets and real estate from himself at very good (for him) prices...