You forgot the part about disregarding laws/regulations and trying to grow fast enough so that by the time the regulators start to apply pressure you have enough money and clout to fight back, all while preventing the smaller guys from doing the same thing you did.

Not saying that WeWork is doing that, but it's definitely a time-honored Silicon Valley approach. Just look at the recent faux pas from Robinhood with their "checking & savings" accounts that got them bitch slapped nearly instantaneously by regulators, forcing Robinhood to withdraw the announcement and update it to a "cash management" account with details to follow.

Same for companies like Amazon. Grow super fast and ignore tax laws regarding nexus so you don't pay sales tax. And run a massive loss for years on end until you can figure out how to subsidize your losses through another profitable venture which you hope to achieve. They did with their AWS/cloud business and that makes the company as a whole barely profitable. But subsidizing your massive retail business losses with your high cloud margins is supposedly illegal. Number of regulators anywhere to be found? Zero. And don't forget to have an advantage against all the third party sellers because you can undercut them since you also sell millions of products and don't face the platform/marketplace fees, equating to illegal competition. Must be nice to be a big player.