“There were some projections we missed by 80 percent,” the WeWork employee said. “You figure that’s the ‘gotcha moment’ where they say, ‘You guys are full of shit.’”

India for a start-up conference

$355 million, at a valuation of $5 billion. WeWork’s Series D put it among the world’s dozen most valuable unicorns, ahead of Spotify and just a few spots behind Theranos.

Yerushalmi was unbothered;

Bruce Dunlevie remained Adam’s champion, expressing his belief in Adam’s expansive vision and comparing him to a new-age Jeff Bezos.

Global Coworking Unconference Conference.

Jared Kushner.

By the mid-’90s, SoftBank had 800 employees and a billion dollars in revenue.

Masa was interested in reviving a proposed merger between T-Mobile and Sprint, which SoftBank owned; the deal had run afoul of Obama administration regulators concerned about