After spending just 12 minutes in their office...
SoftBank's CEO wrote them a $4.4B check.
Less than 30 minutes later, he invested another $2B.
Here's the sales pitch WeWork's founder used to convince the world's smartest investors to ignore basic
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Calling WeWork a tech company was genius marketing. Investors were so obsessed with โdisruptionโ that they ignored the fact it was just glorified subletting
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After spending just 12 minutes in their office...
SoftBank's CEO wrote them a $4.4B check.
Less than 30 minutes later, he invested another $2B.
Here's the sales pitch WeWork's founder used to convince the world's smartest investors to ignore basic
Life can be much more Broader once you Discover One Simple Fact and that is
Everything around you that you call LIFE
Was made up by People that were not Smarter than You.
In 2018, WeWork tried to raise $20 billion from SoftBank's Vision Fund. The deal was almost finalized, but major investors in the fund, including Saudi Arabia opposed it, causing the deal to collapse. Now, in 2025, OpenAI has raised a $40 billion rou
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Nawal
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The fact that this company is in Sensex and Nifty next is unbelievable and previously their growth was coming from 400 crore of "other" income. Market fell and so did their profits. They were not profitable in main business even in past quarter.
Everyone thought Steve Jobs was insane in 2001...
When he opened brick-and-mortar stores.
Other tech companies had JUST closed 100s of branches. Dell was making BILLIONS selling PCs online.
But Jobs saw something no one else did...
The story behi
๐Short story of wework
WeWork started in 2010 when Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey saw a chance to rethink office space. After the 2008 recession, empty buildings were plentiful, and freelancers needed affordable places to work. They leased floors
Startup Fact: Did you know that the term 'unicorn' in the startup world was coined just a decade ago? Aileen Lee first used it in 2013 to describe private companies valued at over $1 billion.
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Ixigo IPO will see VCs reaping bumper returns๐
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- Elevation Capital (Previously SAIF) - โน63 crore invested, ROIC โฉ ~13X
- Peak XV - โน67 crore invested, ROIC โฉ ~8X
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Nawal
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Fun fact back in 2019- Even I applied for startinup 10lacs grant Via NIET As incubation - guess what ?
We were selected - but in 2025 , when the team got separated , idea shelfed and our startup died .
That's how govt is working towards startup
Welcome to OUT OF THE BOX MARKETING !
EP= 13 (Mcdonalds India)
Imagine ordering a BigMac but receiving a McFlurry instead.
Read it out.
The Lok Sabha elections (April 2019) were held in India, and McDonald's came up with a marketing strategy.
It