{"id":8987,"date":"2022-09-29T19:37:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T19:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2022-09-29T19:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T19:37:14","slug":"why-does-the-wework-guy-get-to-fail-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8987","title":{"rendered":"Why does the WeWork guy get to fail up?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The housing shortage is certainly a big deal. The US was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freddiemac.com\/research\/insight\/20210507-housing-supply\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">short nearly 4 million housing units<\/a>&nbsp;as of late 2020, and the problem is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/14\/upshot\/housing-shortage-us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spreading across the country<\/a>. The inability to buy a home has huge repercussions on everything from Americans\u2019 quality of life to their ability to create wealth. The problem is big enough that venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is writing its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/15\/business\/dealbook\/adam-neumann-wework-startup.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">biggest check to date<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 $350 million, valuing the company at $1 billion \u2014 to invest in Flow with the hope that the company can disrupt residential real estate through technology.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2022\/8\/17\/23309756\/wework-adam-neumann-flow-andreessen-venture-capital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2022\/8\/17\/23309756\/wework-adam-neumann-flow-andreessen-venture-capital<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The housing shortage is certainly a big deal. The US was short nearly 4 million housing units as of late 2020, and the problem is spreading across the country. The inability to buy a home has huge repercussions on everything from Americans\u2019 quality of life to their ability to create wealth. The problem is big enough that venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is writing its biggest check to date \u2014 $350 million, valuing the company at $1 billion \u2014 to invest in Flow with the hope that the company can disrupt residential real estate through technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[270,628],"class_list":["post-8987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-housing","tag-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8988,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions\/8988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}