WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall

Re:WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall by zantana on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @01:41PM (#20997955)

I hope this doesn't torpedo meetup.com. They aren't the best for sure, but they are the right mix between old school mailman list and facebook.

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Re:WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall by smacktoward on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @02:09PM (#20998292)

It would be a sad irony if it did. When Meetup first popped back in the mid-2000s, they very deliberately turned away from the "blitzscaling" model in favor of building a sustainable business. For them to end up as collateral damage of someone else's blitzscaling train wreck fifteen years later would show that God has a dark sense of humor.

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Re:WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall by Glibaudio on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @02:31AM (#21002836)

Agreed.

MeetUp is cool, needs to live.

Context; WeWork bought Meetup in 2017; https://www.businessinsider.com/wework-buys-meetup-for-200-m...

Hopefully want the team at Instapaper/Pinterest did will become more common.

Wherein failed integrations will be allowed to go back free and pursue their original potential.

I think this is a very positive pattern.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/16/instapaper-buys-itself-b...

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Re:WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall by JansjoFromIkea on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @05:54AM (#21003675)

Is meetup deliberately a bit crappy and limited or something? The limitations of their search features continues to baffle me.

_something_ to allow a search for particular times of the day would be great, or the ability to zone in on a smaller area than "5 miles from London". If you want to browse further than My Meetups and Recommended you've to wade through so many 2 person attending afternoon meetups, it's incredibly easy to scroll into the next day and not realise... just all around terrible.

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Re:WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall by tragic on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @02:49AM (#21002917)

If it's a sustainable business, I would guess it would be sold off to pay creditors in the event of a wework bankruptcy. So will probably be all right (depending on the buyer, of course).

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Re:WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall by ellard on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @05:12PM (#21000144)

How would WeWork going under torpedo meetup.com? I'm not super familiar with their relationship with each other. Some quick Googling shows that they do have one partnership for a product related to booking a space for use with a meetup, but I don't know if MeetUp earns like a huge portion of their revenue off that.

Edit: Just found out that Meetup.com is owned by WeWork. This makes sense to me now.

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Re:WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall by erichurkman on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @05:49PM (#21000435)

A lot of meetups are held in WeWork spaces, especially smaller ones that are too small or niche to have a strong corporate backer.

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Re:WeWork’s Back Is Against a Wall by ellard on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @05:58PM (#21000517)

I also just realized that WeWork owns Meetup.com. I don't know how I missed that.

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