The rapid growth of cloud and open source software have given rise cohort of tech unicorns. These unicorns have tackled and changed industries in finance, transportation, BI, real-estate, and others. Besides Airbnb, real-estate technology (proptech) companies are, due to the market’s younger age, still relatively low-key compared to their counterparts in more mature industries. With […]
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The Revenue Models of WeWork
We Company has, over the years moved from lease length arbitrage to management fee collection to construction, and is now pivoting back to basics. WeWork has always carried a risk with its long-term leases which could realize during economic slowdown when it would lose its short-term customers. The bubble didn’t have to burst for the […]
The Second Wave of PropTech
While PropTech 1.0 was mostly comprised of established companies going online, the second wave, like in many other sectors, is disrupting through the mechanisms and economics of startup creation. Both VC backed unicorns and bootstrapping underdogs are trying to win over parts of the huge real estate market. A growing amount of investments can be seen moving […]