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WeWork documents reveal it owes $18B in rent and is burning through cash (sfgate.com)
4 points by aresant on April 25, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Revenue from memberships more than doubled last year, to $822 million, but expenses also more than doubled, to $1.81 billion.

Then:

Filling desks — and keeping them filled — is an important metric for WeWork, which says it has done so with 81% of them, higher than its minimum requirement of 60% occupancy to cover costs.

But it's not covering costs, and considering its rent obligations are so high, it may never be able to.




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