DESK 2 — FILE OPEN
FOLDER W-1106CASE #2023-1106SHELF 4 / ROW C
CLOSED
BUREAU OF COMMERCIAL DEATHS
DIVISION OF COLD CASES / FORM 41-D / DEATH OF A GOING CONCERN
CASE NUMBER
CASE #2023-1106
SUBJECT

WEWORK INC.

DATE OPENED
2010 — New York, New York
DATE CLOSED
November 6, 2023
KNOWN ALIASES
WE (NYSE); The We Company
INVESTIGATOR
Det. Redact
CAUSE OF DEATH
Subject signed leases lasting fifteen years and sold them by the month.
PEAK VALUATION
$47,000,000,000 (January 2019)
ASSETS RECOVERED
Equity zeroed; $13,000,000,000 in lease obligations outstanding
CLASSIFICATION — MARK ONE
FRAUD
NEGLIGENCE
✕HUBRIS
MARKET FORCES
UNKNOWN
EVIDENCE SUMMARY

Public offering withdrawn after thirty-three days of outside review. Filing described subject’s mission as the elevation of world consciousness.

Founder departed under a settlement larger than the annual payroll of several tenants.

Subject continued to operate for four further years in a condition the Division classifies as ambulatory.

Remainder of statement sealed:
FILED BY Det. Redact · BADGE 0001NO FURTHER ACTION AUTHORIZED
PROPERTY OF THE BUREAUDO NOT REMOVE FROM ROOM 0114
MARGIN NOTE — INVESTIGATING OFFICER
Everyone read the filing, and then it kept going for four years. That is the part I cannot file.
Det. Redact peeking from behind the note
Long lease. Short tenant. Write it on the wall.
EVIDENCE TAG
ITEM W-1106
SUBJECT WEWORK INC.
RECEIVED 2023
CONDITION AS FOUND