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Which market cap? The one that was set by investors during the last round and has already been more than halved?

>market cap

You mean their private unicorn valuation? Kodak is publicly traded, WeWork is not, so you can't compare them. WeWork isn't that different from most failing unicorns.

Market cap is almost never used as the valuation of a privately held company. Their valuation which since around $17B has almost solely been funded by SoftBank and the venture fund? SoftBank took them from a $20B valuation with others to solo pushing them up to $47B over the course of less than 2 years. That doesn’t count as a market cap.