One of WeWork's earliest investors may have jinxed the startup by highlighting its lack of problems.
"We haven't really had a torpedo below the waterline," Bruce Dunlevie, a partner at Benchmark Capital and a WeWork board member, told Fast Company in April. "The company has been lucky to not have a really negative thing happen to it."
Benchmark was an early investor in Uber, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, Dropbox, and other technology companies. The venture capital firm seemed to cool on WeWork as it didn't take part in later financing rounds.
Dunlevie became more and more concerned by Neumann's behavior, such as his sale of stock ahead of the company's IPO, Fast Company reported.