Before becoming WeWork’s COO in 2015, Artie Minson was the CFO of Time Warner Cable.
The jump was, on its surface, odd. Not only had Minson given up an office with a picture-window view of New York’s Central Park to work at a startup, but it was a startup that seemed to have little in common with the cable TV business. WeWork, which operates more than 135 locations in 14 countries, essentially does rent arbitrage: It signs long-term commercial leases, divides the space into tiny offices, and rents them, month by month, at a premium.