July 22, 2019· 38 min

The Bullish Case for WeWork

Orality
Model
78%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(1,099 words)
M:29%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,987 words)
M:28%
GuestSandy Kory(3,974 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic38%
insane, crazy, very
Engagement70%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
know (177x), think (104x), they (91x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., And not just any IPOs...., So we had, let's see, Uber, Be...
Sound Patterns48%
36 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases8%
at the end of the day, i mean, to be honest

Literate Indicators

Hedging11%
quite, relatively, maybe
Passive Voice7%
is overrated, was called, be leased
Abstract Nouns21%
investment, direction, argument
Subordination5%
since, although, because
Sentence Length56%
Avg: 19.0 words/sentence
Word Complexity46%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style30%
520 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style99%
really, relatively, actually

Description

Of all the “unicorn” startups in recent years, perhaps none induces more skepticism than WeWork. Thanks to its gigantic losses and unusual business practices, many view it as the ultimate emblem of Silicon Valley irrationality. But there are some bulls who say the company is misunderstood! On this week’s episode, we speak with Sandy Kory, a managing director at Horizon Partners, about why he’s bullish on WeWork and how it’s misunderstood by so many people. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.