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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

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Son thought he was backing the next Airbnb-style disruption in workspaces. But, in reality, WeWork was more like a glorified property management company with a bad business model.

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