Hadn't heard of this guy, but sounds like he was doing a sorta...what do they call uber/airbnb/etc? Gigeconomy or something? Basically doing a version of that for business real estate? I bet we start seeing bubbles on those types of companies burst as the economy tightens due to Republicans greed fucking things up again.
Frankly I think Uber at this point is a straight up money laundering scheme or maybe tax scam as it bleeds money like mad, can't seem to make their base business plan profitable (seems like they were banking that autonomous vehicles would let them ditch the drivers and they seemed to have been banking on it happening sooner than later, which of course they fucked up because of their shit corporate culture that had them playing fast and loose with the technology).
Back to this guy and "Wework", sounds like after he got serious investments it went to his head and he started the (seemingly inevitable) power hungry corruption shenanigans.
I'd probably liken him more to a Weird Al parody of Elizabeth Holmes or something. There was actually a Theranos place when I first moved down here. It didn't stay open to long, but I have no clue why the hell they even had "stores" as that had to cost ridiculous amounts of money for little benefit to their original plan. I know they were basically trying to transition to just a typical lab testing (with them probably looking to utilize the info in some database and sell the information), but it still was just blatantly stupid business plan and investors should've been asking what they were thinking. I have to wonder if those places even adhered to regulations (hell just basic ones for staffing and medical testing, let alone higher stuff like HIPPA).