Dror Poleg | re•thinking

Future of Work? Hold Your Horses

Forget about getting things done. Most work can be done elsewhere. An office is necessary because it allows people to socialize and learn. Over the past few weeks, I've heard

Landlords are Zucked

This week's newsletter is different. Instead of covering 5-6 topics, it only covers one. A lot is going on, and I'll send another email early next week. Today, I want

Future of Work

NBC: The Office of the Future

“Rethinking Real Estate, a book that even before the pandemic was projecting big changes in how offices will be used in the future. He says landlords will now need to

Newsletter

Outsourcing Cities, Coffee Offices, Reviving WeWork, and Shorting Campuses

1. An Office is not a Coffeeshop. On Wednesday, Antony Slumbers and I joined The Real Deal's Hiten Samtani to discuss the future of offices. Hiten brought up a suggestion

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Google Goes, Airbnb Cuts, WeWork Fights, and Common Grows

I hope you and your family are well. We are still waiting for spring to officially begin here in New York. April was cold and wet. May is a mixed

Shop & Travel

Home Alone: What's Next for Airbnb?

"We are pausing our efforts in Transportation and Airbnb Studios, and we have to scale back our investments in Hotels and Lux[ury Properties]", says Airbnb's CEO Brian Chesky. Airbnb

Study from home, live on campus.

Forty-five million Americans owe more than $1.6 trillion in student debt. Such debt contributes to low home-ownership among those under 40. The cost of going to college in the

Future of Work

Future of Work: Don't ask where, ask how.

Many middle managers and landlords are saying (and hoping) that working at home is not productive. Most of them are missing the point. Companies in cities like New York, San

Are you ready for Post-Pandemic Posturing?

Parts of the world are easing their lockdown, and corporations are trying to figure out how to get people to come out and spend.

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Clean Malls, Spacious WeWorks,Empty Schools, and Unsustainable Cities

1. Are you ready for Post-Pandemic Posturing? Parts of the world are easing their lockdown, and corporations are trying to figure out how to get people to come out and

Forty in Quarantine

Today is Israel’s 72nd Independence Day. It is also my 40th birthday. I am celebrating it in New York, where I now live with my wife and daughter. My

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Unbundling Cities, Extending Airbnb, Disrupting Kitchens, and Building Startups

This week's newsletter looks at the Great Covid Survey, Unbundling the City, Cleaning up Airbnb, The future of CloudKitchens, Blue Ocean Strategy, Urban Employment, the Future of Cities, and Venture Capital's shift from pure software to hard assets.

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Healthy Travel, Virtual Friends, Empty Offices, and Zoom Goats

I hope you and your family are well. We just concluded Passover 2020, in exile in the suburbs, waiting for Pharaoh to let us go back to Brooklyn. The thing

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Amazon Masks, Airbnb Bailouts, Autonomous Virus, Moon Walls, and Google Errors

Below are the eight most interesting things I've seen this week, at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds. 1. I'm from Amazon and I'm here to help. The

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WeWork Billions, Zoom Bombings, Amazon Spouses, and Phone Weddings

On Tuesday, I gave a guest lecture — via Zoom — at the University of Colorado about financing innovative real estate products. This was a great opportunity to test some of the

Newsletter

Pant-less Office, Acoustic Homes, Airbnb Glut, and Bacterial Construction

I hope you are well and staying productive during these strange times. Earlier this week, I led a live discussion with Antony Slumbers, Susan Freeman, Elie Finegold, and Ronen Journo

Privacy

Coronavirus Response: Urban Technology in China and the U.S.

Dror Poleg discusses the use of urban technology to fend of Covid-19, contrasting the advantages and risks of the Chinese and American approaches. Interviewed by Olivier Knox on SiriusXM Radio.

WeWork Cash, Amazon Code, Quarantine Leases, and Radical Localism

1. Who let the kids in? 300 million children are suddenlyhomeschooled across the world. Some parents can't wait for this experiment to end. Others might find that it's been good

Office viruses, Human Retail, Flagship Funerals, and Online Drinking

1. Worried about viruses? Don't read this. In 2017, researches wanted to see how long it takes for a virus to spread in an office. They placed a (harmless) sample

Videos

Real Estate’s New Age of Abundance

A short video presentation based on my talk at the Rethinking Real Estate book launch in London.

Hotel Masayoshi: How to Fund the Future of Real Estate?

To transform the world’s largest asset class, entrepreneurs must rely on a new combination of capital. Last week, we explored Neumann’s Vortex, the cycle of fast growth, negative

Travel & Shop

Long WeWork, Short Airbnb?

Real estate’s two greatest unicorns offer important lessons about the meaning of “tech”, the future of venture investment, and the lasting power of real assets — and real liabilities. WeWork

Future of Work

Farewell to We: What's next for WeWork?

Below are some notes I scribbled ahead of a media interview. Sharing here for those interested. Check out my upcoming book on technology's impact on real estate! Where to next

Future of Work

It’s Not We, It’s You: A Lesson That Landlords Must Learn

Whether WeWork succeeds or fails, landlords are facing an immense challenge that everyone seems eager to ignore.Remember Napster? It was a precursor to what we now call the sharing

Future of Work

Can ‘We’ Work? Perspectives on WeWork’s IPO

WeWork combines an impressive trajectory with significant risk. Other public companies offer valuable insights about its business model, liabilities, governance, and valuation. Welcome to the desert of the real. Jean

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