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📈 WeWork's Chapter 11 resets its leases at 60 cents - landlords eat it, the distressed buyer wins

WeWork's bankruptcy is a lease-restructuring event, not an asset failure: a private-equity buyer takes the 777 locations out of Chapter 11, sheds the dead ones and forces the rest to roughly 60 cents on the dollar, inheriting billions of already-spent tenant-improvement dollars for free. Landlords have no better tenant and no TI capital of their own, so they accept - the value transfers out of office landlords' rent rolls and into whoever buys the estate.

0 CONVICTION
peaked 59.0 WATCH
DORMANT
band
▼ SHORT SLG
expression · bearish equities
MISS
outcome · R -128.9% · α -162.1%
2024-11-03
window closed

⚖ Why this verdict

fully deterministic — evaluate.py replays this from daily closes; nothing below is editable or hand-set

  1. Window: 2023-11-03 → 2024-11-03 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
  2. The call: ▼ SHORT SLG (primary play). SLG rose 128.9% over the window → direction-adjusted R = -128.9% (the call lost money).
  3. Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +33.1%α = -128.9 − (+33.1) = -162.1% — what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the verdict uses.
    Stock-selection read: -95.8% — did SLG move the predicted way relative to the market. The two only differ on a SHORT: this call was right about direction relative to the index but still cost money versus holding it.
  4. Rule fired:
    · HIT — R ≥ +10% AND α ≥ +5
    · PARTIAL — R ≥ +5% OR α ≥ 0
    ▶ MISS — everything else
  5. Credit: supporters of a MISS earn 0 each, opposers the inverse — this feeds the scoreboard weights. supported: Chamath, Friedberg, Sacks

Conviction timeline

bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15

Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2023-11-03)

Plays

expressionsymbolkindrelevancerationale
▼ SHORT SLGstock PRIMARY NYC office landlord with direct WeWork lease exposure; rent roll marks down on renegotiated leases
▼ SHORT BXPstock adjacent office REIT bellwether for the rent reset that a WeWork lease rejection wave forces
▼ SHORT VNOstock adjacent large urban office landlord facing the same top-of-market lease resets

Mention log

Sacks
Sacks equities w=0.89 · n=96 · E152 (2023-11-03) · explicit_prediction · strength 3 ▶ 43:02 SUPPORT
“There's no question that WeWork has been a capital destruction machine. That being said, I actually think that some private equity player is going to buy this out of bankruptcy and make a fortune.”
Chamath
Chamath equities w=0.84 · n=160 · E152 (2023-11-03) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 45:20 SUPPORT
“Oh my God, you just convinced me. Let's go buy it.”
Friedberg
Friedberg equities w=0.87 · n=120 · E152 (2023-11-03) · sentiment · strength 2 ▶ 41:38 SUPPORT
“the business is just drowning in these lease obligations and to restructure 777 lease obligations in this environment that we're talking about while doing what Chamath is saying, lowering rents to attract employers to show up and actually rent space from them is obviously causing the business model to distort even worse than it has been historically.”

Who built this conviction

each voice's total force on the score — supports and opposes from every mention, weighted exactly as the replay applied them · share = % of all mention-driven movement

Sacks
Sacks w=0.89
1 scoring event · 63% of moves
+37.2 → net +37.2
Friedberg
Friedberg w=0.87
1 scoring event · 21% of moves
+12.2 → net +12.2
Chamath
Chamath w=0.84
1 scoring event · 16% of moves
+9.5 → net +9.5

⏳ decay drained -50.3 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one

Score events

episodekindΔafternote
E152 2023-11-03 init +37.2 37.2 E152 born by Sacks (explicit_prediction x3) [w=0.89]
E152 2023-11-03 reinforce +12.2 49.4 E152 Friedberg support x2 (new voice) [w=0.87]
E152 2023-11-03 reinforce +9.5 59.0 E152 Chamath support x2 (new voice) [w=0.84]
E156 2023-12-08 decay -2.4 56.6 E156 silent
E157 2023-12-16 decay -2.3 54.3 E157 silent
E158 2023-12-23 decay -2.2 52.2 E158 silent
E159 2023-12-29 decay -2.1 50.1 E159 silent
E160 2024-01-06 decay -2.0 48.1 E160 silent
E161 2024-01-13 decay -1.9 46.2 E161 silent
E162 2024-01-19 decay -1.8 44.3 E162 silent
E163 2024-01-26 decay -1.8 42.5 E163 silent
E164 2024-02-02 decay -1.7 40.8 E164 silent
E165 2024-02-09 decay -1.6 39.2 E165 silent
E166 2024-02-16 decay -1.6 37.6 E166 silent
E167 2024-02-23 decay -1.5 36.1 E167 silent
E168 2024-03-01 decay -1.4 34.7 E168 silent
E169 2024-03-08 decay -1.4 33.3 E169 silent
E170 2024-03-15 decay -1.3 32.0 E170 silent
E171 2024-03-22 decay -1.3 30.7 E171 silent
E172 2024-03-29 decay -1.2 29.5 E172 silent
E173 2024-04-05 decay -1.2 28.3 E173 silent
E174 2024-04-12 decay -1.1 27.1 E174 silent
E175 2024-04-19 decay -1.1 26.1 E175 silent
E176 2024-04-26 decay -1.0 25.0 E176 silent
E177 2024-05-03 decay -1.0 24.0 E177 silent
E178 2024-05-10 decay -1.0 23.1 E178 silent
E179 2024-05-17 decay -0.9 22.1 E179 silent
E180 2024-05-24 decay -0.9 21.3 E180 silent
E181 2024-05-31 decay -0.8 20.4 E181 silent
E182 2024-06-07 decay -0.8 19.6 E182 silent
E183 2024-06-14 decay -0.8 18.8 E183 silent
E184 2024-06-20 decay -0.8 18.0 E184 silent
E185 2024-06-29 decay -0.7 17.3 E185 silent
E186 2024-07-04 decay -0.7 16.6 E186 silent
E187 2024-07-12 decay -0.7 16.0 E187 silent
E188 2024-07-19 decay -0.6 15.3 E188 silent
E189 2024-07-26 decay -0.6 14.7 E189 silent
E190 2024-08-02 decay -0.6 14.1 E190 silent
E191 2024-08-09 decay -0.6 13.6 E191 silent
E192 2024-08-16 decay -0.5 13.0 E192 silent
E193 2024-08-23 decay -0.5 12.5 E193 silent
E194 2024-08-30 decay -0.5 12.0 E194 silent
E195 2024-09-06 decay -0.5 11.5 E195 silent
E196 2024-09-20 decay -0.5 11.1 E196 silent
E197 2024-09-27 decay -0.4 10.6 E197 silent
E198 2024-10-03 decay -0.4 10.2 E198 silent
E199 2024-10-11 decay -0.4 9.8 E199 silent
E200 2024-10-18 decay -0.4 9.4 E200 silent
E201 2024-10-25 decay -0.4 9.0 E201 silent
E202 2024-11-01 decay -0.4 8.7 E202 silent