As someone living in SF, I don’t think anyone in SF or SV would ever consider WeWork to be a “Silicon Valley” company in the same way that Uber or Twitter or Slack is.
The company has 0 tech brand among employees (how many ex-FB or ex-Google engineers work there?) and outside of Benchmark’s early round none of the VCs are SV-based.
Point is the media is making this out to be an indictment on some SV tech bubble but people in SV are looking at this from the outside like everyone else.
The company has 0 tech brand among employees (how many ex-FB or ex-Google engineers work there?) and outside of Benchmark’s early round none of the VCs are SV-based.
Point is the media is making this out to be an indictment on some SV tech bubble but people in SV are looking at this from the outside like everyone else.