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What’s next for WeWork

FT News in Focus

English - January 14, 2019 17:30 - 9 minutes - 12.7 MB - ★★★★ - 133 ratings
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SoftBank changed course when it scaled back plans for an investment in WeWork from $16bn to $2bn. The FT’s Eric Platt spoke with US business editor Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson about what led to the cut in investment and why an IPO might come sooner than expected.


Read Eric’s reporting here and Andrew’s profile on WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann here.


Contributors: Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, US business editor and Eric Platt, US mergers & acquisitions correspondent. Producer: Jennifer Sigl.


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