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Through Baker and others, Stacey learned that the companies were looking for larger lots to make it easier for them to consolidate leases and infrastructure.

Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

Keeping expenses low was key to WeWork’s model,

Reeves Wiedeman • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

Sam had handed Ryan his checkbook and told him to buy office space and as much worker housing as fast as possible without worrying about the cost. No man was ever so good at not worrying about the cost as Ryan. In a matter of weeks, he had snapped up between $250 and $300 million in real estate, including $153 million worth of condos in an expensiv

Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Today, only one in three new homes in America is “self-built” by individuals. In the United Kingdom, the figure is an abysmal one in ten. A regulatory thicket makes it prohibitively difficult and costly for individuals to build.

Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism

Source: New York Post

Lisa Fickenscher • Saks Fifth Avenue owner developing luxury hotel, apartments in former department stores

Surface areas of possible out-of-syncness.

Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work

Capri C.E.O. John Idol , who has achieved some of the most impressive financial exits in fashion history. After a few formative years as group president of Ralph Lauren, Idol took over as C.E.O. of Donna Karan, which he helped sell to LVMH for $243 million in 2001. A year later, along with investors Lawrence Stroll and Silas Chou , who already owne... See more

Coach & Kors’ Marriage of Convenience

Attentive visitors will notice something else, which is that about a third of the buildings in De Beauvoir – and generally the best maintained – have handsome dark blue front doors. This is the color of the Benyon Estate, the original landowners in the nineteenth century. Unlike most London landowners, the Benyon Estate never completely sold off th... See more

The fewer the merrier

When Moses had become president of the Long Island State Park Commission on April 18, 1924, there had been one state park on Long Island, the almost worthless 200-acre tract on Fire Island. By the end of the summer of 1928, there were fourteen parks totaling 9,700 acres.