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There is a good slate money about this and other companies starting to grind down now that the market psychology getting slightly less delusional. WeWork had a really self-dealing and "visionary" CEO who would probably have supplied lots of Silicon Valley storylines if that show wasn't in its last season, and when the prospectus went out for the IPO their dire cash flow came to light and they had to can him. https://slate.com/podcasts/slate-money/2019/09/slate-money-on-wework-juul-and-thomas-cook
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a price floor on weed wouldn't be totally unprecedented; the severely restricted supply of on-site consumption (bar and restaurant) liquor licenses in most jurisdictions is partly to accomplish just that, though indirectly. labor is most of the reason drinks at a bar are more expensive than retail, but that enforced scarcity is part of it too
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I think I speak for most normal folks when I say good
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vyst posted:I think I speak for most normal folks when I say good
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I cannot in my mind envision paying money for something that is less convenient than walking and also not much faster. Who rides these things and why?
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It’s much faster than walking and you literally don’t need to exercise. At all. I mean hate the idea and its negative externalities but it’s really hard not to see why people like it.
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Electric scooters finally infested my city, but before so, a law got passed that they have to be docked in designated zones.
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im on board with anything that gets people thinking outside the mindset of driving everywhere
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I don't think the thousands of abandoned scooters thrown in the river when Lime et all go belly up are going to be a net positive. Plus they're not a car replacement, they're a walking 5 blocks from your car in downtown replacement.
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They're also a nightmare for our comrades with disabilities as they block up sidewalks and things.
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alpha_destroy posted:They're also a nightmare for our comrades with disabilities as they block up sidewalks and things. The corner in front of my building in downtown Austin earlier this year: 
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I'm so glad that my city clamped down hard on that poo poo and made their own bikesharing thing(not really but they only allow one dealer to operate in the city) with designated zones where you can park. Of course pro capitalist douchebags are crying foul and how an open market would be so much better.
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i will never not post this video when these scooters come up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU6WSFG8CIA
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Trabant posted:The corner in front of my building in downtown Austin earlier this year: Those scooters just need a slight adjustment to be "in pieces in the dumpster behind my building in Austin".
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Weatherman posted:Those scooters just need a slight adjustment to be "in pieces in the dumpster behind my building in Austin".
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FilthyImp posted:They need a $25 replacement board to become "oh poo poo, we can't trace it anymore guess it's yours now gently caress" I've been wondering about that actually, we're outside the Austin Scooter Zone but we do have some neat e-bikes I wouldn't mind appropriating
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Doggles posted:https://twitter.com/ShiraOvide/status/1186430852399583237 the CEO/founder is going to walk away with hundreds of millions of dollars lmao 
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brugroffil posted:the CEO/founder is going to walk away with hundreds of millions of dollars lmao He won't get hundreds of millions of dollars. He'll get over a billion. https://twitter.com/verge/status/1186656033269342208
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Just goes to show you, sometimes all you need is a good idea!
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I mean, look, the idea is fine! People sometimes need a place to work that isn't home or Starbucks. Just not sure it's worth 1.7 billion dollars to implement it in a terrible way and ultimately fail.
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It is if you're Adam Neumann.
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Wait, this is a coworking space company? For some reason I thought it was more an AirBnB where they matched properties and tenants. WTF? Some companies like AirBnB and Uber effectively dominate a market and make it difficult for new start-ups to gain a foothold, but there's nothing stopping competing coworking operations from starting up. It's not like WeWork can offer cubes, conference rooms, and VoIP at significantly cheaper prices than a local competitor. Well, they can - but they have to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars a day to do it. We have a coworking company nearby that was built out of an old CVS drugstore and it's always hopping and they don't have a weird CEO who has to be paid a billion dollars to go away. Hopefully the billion is in WeWork stock that he can't sell for X number of years.
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It's entirely possible that I have not kept up with WeWork's change in business model since they were first founded.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Wait, this is a coworking space company? For some reason I thought it was more an AirBnB where they matched properties and tenants. It's "we'll charge you $500 to sleep in a closet stuffed with double bunk beds and all the living/dining spaces are shared workspace for creatives" and the local news was going wild for it.
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I've attended meetings at quite a few WeWork places and they're all quite nice. The niceness is more jarring if you understand how miserable and god awful the average office is. Companies are starting to see the importance of keeping their office drones happy, yet very few have any expertise in managing the office space part of it. The demand is there, someone just needs to figure out the economics of the supplying. There probably are meaningful economies of scale to centralizing design and maintenance under one firm. Trouble is this is a pretty high sunk-cost business, so when you gently caress up you find yourself where WeWork is.
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I'm hesitant to drag e-scooters too much because they actually are a HUGE help to lower income people who can use them, and provide some freedom to younger people too, but I can't also help but the feel the annoyance at their proliferation.Vegetable posted:I've attended meetings at quite a few WeWork places and they're all quite nice. The niceness is more jarring if you understand how miserable and god awful the average office is. I don't think I've done WorkSpace but the vast majority of these shared/rented office spaces are pretty bad, and when you end up in the rare one that's good it's like "oh why isn't it always like this?"
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someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my startup is dying
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totalnewbie posted:I mean, look, the idea is fine! People sometimes need a place to work that isn't home or Starbucks. I have been wrong this all time; I have made these with 5-figure budgets and 0-EUR leases to get more clients to failing tech parks and I did not get my multimillion USD bailout regardless of being success or not.
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Der Kyhe posted:I have been wrong this all time; I have made these with 5-figure budgets and 0-EUR leases to get more clients to failing tech parks and I did not get my multimillion USD bailout regardless of being success or not. Should have used "disruption" more in your Powerpoints.
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kumba posted:i will never not post this video when these scooters come up lol ok this rules
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OMGVBFLOL posted:lol ok this rules holy poo poo that's a pro-click
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Sir Lemming posted:someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my startup is dying Get bought out of your ownership for a billion dollars.
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Vegetable posted:I've attended meetings at quite a few WeWork places and they're all quite nice. The niceness is more jarring if you understand how miserable and god awful the average office is. There is a business Im working with right now that basically does this. They help companies redesign and improve existing office space
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totalnewbie posted:I mean, look, the idea is fine! People sometimes need a place to work that isn't home or Starbucks. The idea is "commercial property management company" but because our economy is dumb as hell WeWork is treated as some disruptive tech startup and given insane amounts of money
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Vegetable posted:I've attended meetings at quite a few WeWork places and they're all quite nice. The niceness is more jarring if you understand how miserable and god awful the average office is. Keeping office drones happy isn't all that difficult, I think. My guess is probably a few changes. First thing is to make things less loving soulless. Offices are just so bleak. Let the drones actually decorate the drat place. Next if they get their poo poo done early let them go home a bit early instead of forcing them to sit in a box and pretend to work. If they get their work done in half the time you expected then give them a drat raise and find them other things to do. Then stop it with the MANDATORY CORPORATE FUN DAY bullshit. It's always the most boring, inoffensive crap that almost nobody actually likes. Alternatively let the people participating in the activities choose. Maybe get multiple potential options together and let people pick which ones they want. Most assuredly never schedule that poo poo on Saturday. Let them work from home more. Actually reward people who accomplish exceptional things. Leave them the gently caress alone on the weekend unless it's an emergency. Last thing you do is get rid of the politicking busy bodies that have nothing better to do than lord whatever tiny sliver of power they can get over everybody else, actively look for any excuse to complain about inconsequential crap, and actively avoid doing any actual work. Those people are organizational cancer. Now give me a billion dollars, tia.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Keeping office drones happy isn't all that difficult, I think. My guess is probably a few changes. First thing is to make things less loving soulless. Offices are just so bleak. Let the drones actually decorate the drat place. Next if they get their poo poo done early let them go home a bit early instead of forcing them to sit in a box and pretend to work. If they get their work done in half the time you expected then give them a drat raise and find them other things to do. Then stop it with the MANDATORY CORPORATE FUN DAY bullshit. It's always the most boring, inoffensive crap that almost nobody actually likes. Alternatively let the people participating in the activities choose. Maybe get multiple potential options together and let people pick which ones they want. Most assuredly never schedule that poo poo on Saturday. Let them work from home more. Actually reward people who accomplish exceptional things. Leave them the gently caress alone on the weekend unless it's an emergency. Last thing you do is get rid of the politicking busy bodies that have nothing better to do than lord whatever tiny sliver of power they can get over everybody else, actively look for any excuse to complain about inconsequential crap, and actively avoid doing any actual work. Those people are organizational cancer. ive known people who work at offices with culture that didn't completely suck and they did all these things all of them, to a one, also had a culture of glossing over sexual harassment. several still do. all the cutesy crap on the walls and on-site booze don't do much if you make it clear that powerful harassers will be protected and their victims hung out to dry, so i'd add that too. investigate every accusation, and be ruthless about making heads roll when there's a pattern and/or proof
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OMGVBFLOL posted:lol ok this rules
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