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WeWork filed for bankruptcy in the US in 2022. The company struggled to recover from the effects of Covid-19 on the economy and its failed initial public offering in 2019.

The loose culture that characterised WeWork should have served as an ominous warning sign but the board clearly missed or ignored it.

WeWorks bankruptcy filing follows a dramatic decline in value from $47 billion to as low as $10 billion, driven by losses and corporate governance lapses

WeWork owns about 27% in WeWork India, which has been one of the parent company’s fastest growing affiliates outside the US

Adam Neumann, the former CEO of WeWork founded the company in 2010 and by 2019, it was worth $47 billion.

In September, the CEO in a public letter emphasised that WeWork is not going anywhere and that it was immediately undergoing reworking its leases worldwide

The successful IPO of Arm Holdings has boosted SoftBank’s war chest, but canny investors remain cautious about the companies it backs

The abrupt departure of CEO Sandeep Mathrani on Wednesday has also weighed on WeWork's stock price, which fell a record 25% in one day.

WEF Davos 2020: Goldman was one of investment banks that would have led the IPO last year, after convincing WeWork it could improve on the USD 47 billion valuation in a private fundraising round it secured in January 2019

The shared-office company has closed locations, renegotiated leases and cut thousands of jobs to reduce expenses during Covid-19