WeWork’s New CEO Says He Has ‘Plenty of Luck.’ He’ll Need It
- Sandeep Mathrani led major mall owner out of bankruptcy
- Real estate veteran faces a very different challenge at WeWork
The WeWork office space in London.
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Sandeep Mathrani knows what it’s like to lead a company out of trouble.
His former employer, General Growth Properties, had been flattened by the economic recession of 2008. GGP, the second-biggest owner of shopping malls in America, named Mathrani as chief executive officer in 2011 as it was emerging from what was then the biggest real estate bankruptcy in U.S. history.