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Growth. Most initial investors have already exited the company thanks to Softbank.

I get the "hey Softbank is in it" kinda thing, not smart, but I get it.

Growth I don't get. Did they feel they were buying up a lot of undervalued properties and were going to dramatically increase in value somehow?

Office space seems like a mature market and it's not like if I own 3 buildings vs 1000 that there is that much efficiency that growth would get me.

There's not as much efficiency as with a cloud provider or something. But there's a level of scale where people switch from thinking "I could use a bit of temporary office space, I wonder where I can get it" to "where's the closest WeWork". I buy that there's some value there.

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