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WeWork files for bankruptcy after being lauded as the future of co-working

WeWork offices are shown in New York. (Mark Lennihan/AP)
WeWork offices are shown in New York. (Mark Lennihan/AP)

WeWork was once valued at over $40 billion in 2019. So how did the company go from that level of success to declaring bankruptcy in four short years?

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd puts that question to Roben Farzad, host of public radio’s “Full Disclosure.”

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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