About this episode

Matt Haycox interviews Alex Paessler about the realities of WeWork and the coworking industry.

WeWork looked like a tech rocketship. The reality was real estate, lease risk, and a world-class story. In this episode, Matt speaks with Alex Paessler, former senior exec at WeWork and founder of Vallist, a premium flexible workspace operator built on landlord partnerships (management agreements, not long lease liabilities). Alex breaks down what it was like working in the WeWork machine: expansion pressure, why “scale at all costs” led to bad deals, how landlords were pushed into paying for...

People in this episode

Host: Matt Haycox

Guest: Alex Paessler

Topics covered

• WeWork
• coworking
• real estate
• business strategy
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• WeWork
• Alex Paessler
• SoftBank
• coworking
• real estate
• business strategy
• entrepreneurship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WeWork, SoftBank, Vallist

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