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The unit economics were in the S-1. The lease duration mismatch was in the footnotes. The founder control structure — supervoting shares, related party transactions, the $5.9 million trademark — was in the governance section. The public market was the only actor in the process that read them and said no. This episode dissects the WeWork IPO window dressing mechanism, the Community Adjusted EBITDA fabrication, and the three institutional signals that distinguished a real business from a narrative-supported cash burn at $47 billion valuation. GP/LP analysis. IPO due diligence. Startup governance. Metric manipulation. Venture capital risk.SoftBank committed $10 billion to a company with $47 billion in fixed lease liabilities and variable short-term income. The coordinating banks had every number. The stress test was never modeled.

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This is the institutional analysis of WeWork — the three due diligence questions that destroyed the IPO, the governance structure designed for extraction, and why the same mechanism is active in every public exit process with adjusted metrics and a founder holding supervoting shares. GP/LP analysis. No summaries. No shortcuts.

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