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Adam Neumann grew WeWork into one of the world’s most valuable start-ups before it all fell apart.

The ‘most hated man in America’ turned WeWork into a $72b giant before it fell apart. Now he is back

WeWork founder Adam Neumann had a meteoric rise before he was ousted as the office sharing company spiralled into bankruptcy. Now he has returned.

  • Wyatte Grantham-Phillips

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Billions destroyed: How it all fell apart at WeWork

Its charismatic founder helped turn WeWork into a giant that was once valued at $US47 billion. This week, it filed for bankruptcy.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
A WeWork co-working office space in Berkeley, California.

WeWork goes bankrupt, capping co-working start-up’s downfall

The co-working company, once ranked as the most valuable US start-up, has succumbed to bankruptcy after grappling with expensive leases and corporate clients cancelling because some employees work from home.

  • Reuters
After the IPO disaster, WeWork’s business was further battered by the coronavirus pandemic. Many customers cancelled leases and stopped paying rent when the economy turned and workers stayed at home.

WeWork tumbles after raising ‘substantial doubt’ about future

A few years ago, WeWork was one of America’s most valuable start-ups. Then came its IPO disaster, followed by the pandemic, which dealt another blow.

  • Ellen Huet
Adam Neumann grew WeWork into one of the world’s most valuable startups before losing control of the company.

He was once ‘most hated man in America’. Now the founder of WeWork is making a comeback

His spectacular rise and fall has been chronicled in books, documentaries and a scripted television series. Now WeWork founder Adam Neumann has a new venture — and a surprising backer.

  • Andrew Ross Sorkin
Jared Leo as Adam Neumann in a scene from WeCrashed.

Has pop culture pariah WeWork turned the corner? This Aussie investor thinks so

When WeCrashed cameras stopped rolling on Jared Leto as WeWork founder Adam Neumann and Anne Hathaway as his wife Rebekah, the business went on.

  • Nick Bonyhady
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Victory Offices CEO Dan Baxter rings the bell at the company’s ASX listing ceremony in June 2019.

Padlocks put on Bracks-linked Victory Office hubs after rent row

The co-working space operator chaired by former Victorian premier Steve Bracks has been locked out of its premises on Sydney’s George Street.

  • Carolyn Cummins
Jodie and Erz Imam will close their coworking space Depo8 after demand membership dropped significantly in the wake of coronavirus.

Co-working crumbling: Start-ups abandon hot desking

Businesses are fighting for rent reduction or membership fee refunds as co-working becomes untenable.

  • Emma Koehn
The tide is starting to turn for US startups.

'Feels like a reckoning': Tech humbled as US startup boom falters

US tech startups grew so quickly that they couldn't hire people fast enough but now the lay-offs have started and scepticism abounds in an industry once known for its irrational optimism.

  • Erin Griffith
Google co-founders Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page.

The era of Silicon Valley hero worship may be at an end

The last time Larry Page gave someone else his job, it was under very different circumstances.

  • James Titcomb

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