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Why 90% of coliving companies will disappear (and what the survivors will look like)

Plus: Download my full coliving presentation from last year's Urban Living Middle East Conference

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Apr 15, 2025
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In September 2019, WeWork's IPO imploded, burning $47 billion in valuation practically overnight.

What many forget is that just months earlier, their coliving subsidiary WeLive was valued at $2.9 billion and poised for aggressive expansion.

Today, WeLive no longer exists.

And they won't be the last to vanish.

At the height of the coliving boom (2018-2021), …

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