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Re:WeWork Co-Founder Has Cashed Out at Least $700M Via Sales... by dmix on Thursday July 18, 2019 @07:04PM (#20474831)
It’s rare to find a founder being the one who is fleecing the investors instead of the other way around.
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Re:WeWork Co-Founder Has Cashed Out at Least $700M Via Sales... by phamilton on Thursday July 18, 2019 @08:20PM (#20475223)
Not that rare. Ignoring cases like fraud (old ones - Enron, WorldCom and new cases like Theranos) there's still plenty of things like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17239361
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Re:WeWork Co-Founder Has Cashed Out at Least $700M Via Sales... by dmix on Thursday July 18, 2019 @08:36PM (#20475310)
It’s still rare, that’s why Domo and Theranos have so much controversy. ‘Unicorns’ themselves aren’t even that common.
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