Why would a WeWork object to paying Neumann's rent? WeWork is bascially Neumann anyway!
A CEO being the landlord strikes me as a big potential conflict of interest. For example, if the company needs to move to a larger space to grow, the CEO might want to delay to avoid losing income. Perhaps the company might have a prospective buyer who'd want to relocate everyone to their campus. In that case, there would be an external incentive for the CEO not to make the deal.
Why wouldn't levandowski just employ his own company to supply components he was procuring for Google?
The way this used to work, is that the employee would become aware of a market need because the current company had that need and would be a great customer, so the employee spins out her own business, then leaves to run it.
Some people say that McDonald's Corp is not a restaurant, but a real estate company. They get other people to own and run the restaurants, but they buy and lease the land to them at a profit.
So how is this different than WeWork's CEO owning the building and leasing it to WeWork?
In that case, McDonald's still owns the real estate, not Ray Kroc. Here the interests of the corporation and Ray Kroc (as shareholder of McDonald's) are aligned - McDonald's has no incentive to overpay for the real estate, because that would reduce its profits.
Did Ray Kroc personally buy real estate and then lease it to McDonalds to sublease it to franchisees? Was he on both sides of the transactions, leasor as owner of the property and leasee as CEO of the company signing the first lease?
A CEO being the landlord strikes me as a big potential conflict of interest. For example, if the company needs to move to a larger space to grow, the CEO might want to delay to avoid losing income. Perhaps the company might have a prospective buyer who'd want to relocate everyone to their campus. In that case, there would be an external incentive for the CEO not to make the deal.
Why wouldn't levandowski just employ his own company to supply components he was procuring for Google?
The way this used to work, is that the employee would become aware of a market need because the current company had that need and would be a great customer, so the employee spins out her own business, then leaves to run it.