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📈Short 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

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

The dot-com Crisis The .com crisis, or dot-com bubble, was a period of excessive speculation in internet-related companies from 1995 to 2000. Investors poured money into startups with inflated valuations despite many lacking solid business models. Th

Welcome to Dark Pool Venture Capital-where ultra-wealthy individuals, family offices, and private funds invest off the record. Not all VC funding makes headlines. Some of it stays in the shadows. Why stay hidden? 1) No public signals, no inflated

India’s IPO market is witnessing a surge as several high-profile startups are filing to go public, aiming to tap into strong investor sentiment. This wave includes companies across sectors like fintech, e-commerce, EVs, SaaS, and D2C brands, many ba

𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗶𝘀 $𝟰𝟬𝗕 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗲 — 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗛𝗲’𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗩𝗖 𝗕𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲 In 2019, Adam Neumann became the face of one of tech’s most infamous disasters. W

The ET Soonicorns Summit 2025 in Bengaluru is bringing together India’s top startup founders, VCs, and AI leaders to discuss how companies can create defensible advantages (“AI moats”) in an environment where generative AI technology is quickly becom

Builder.ai, a once high-flying AI startup backed by Microsoft and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, collapsed into insolvency despite raising $445M+ and achieving a $1B+ valuation. Its failure underscores critical flaws in the "AI-for-everything" narrat

Meet the woman who failed her first startup before building a 6000 CR company. 1. After graduating from Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, Prukalpa Sankar started her startup, SocialCops, to use data to solve societal challenges. The star

The VC Playbook Is Getting Rewritten, So Here's What's Next The biggest names in Silicon Valley—Lightspeed Ventures, a16z, Sequoia, and Thrive—are no longer mere veil of ventures. They are morphing into tech-powered private equity titans with seism