WeWork
Common Area in WeWork's 500 Dalian Lu location in Shanghai.
- WeWork's $47 billion parent company, The We Company, publicly filed its IPO paperwork on Wednesday.
- WeWork started as one office space in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. Now, it has nearly 800 locations open or coming soon in 124 cities around the world.
- The We Company is composed of WeWork, WeLive (a co-living venture), WeGrow (a "conscious entrepreneurial school"), and Rise by We (a "complete wellness experience").
- Read all of Business Insider's WeWork coverage here.
WeWork, the nine-year-old co-working space startup, just filed for its IPO as part of The We Company, its parent company last valued at $47 billion.
Founder and CEO Adam Neumann opened the first WeWork space in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City in 2010. Since then, the company has re-branded as The We Company and expanded into other ventures, including co-living subsidiary WeLive and the "conscious entrepreneurial school" WeGrow, among others.
Read on for the history of WeWork leading up to its highly anticipated IPO.
Melia Robinson originally authored this post, which has since been updated.