that I don't know anything about, and I'm excited anyway. Do you think I would be stopped by a complete lack of useful information about a story? No. Have you met me? No, I'm not going to be slowed down by a complete lack of information. I'm going to take the most positive spin I can take, and I'm going to give you my hot take on it. Are you ready for it?

So you remember there was a company, or still is, called WeWork. And it got really big, and then there was a scandal. And it was Liz Cheney was defeated by a melted popsicle. We have Carpe Carpidunctum is letting us know. Good to know. Anyway, this WeWork company at one point was worth 46 billion dollars, but now it's only worth 4 billion. And it was some scandal, but none of that matters.

Here's what matters. The founder has a new startup that's already valued at a billion dollars. And here's what excites me about the startup. It's being funded, at least I don't know if entirely or in part, by Andreessen Horowitz. Now what's that tell you? Do you know enough about investing to know if Andreessen Horowitz is in big, that that means something, right? It probably means something, right? That's not a company that invests big in something that's not a pretty darn good idea with somebody who knows how to operate, a good operator.

All right, yeah. Marc Andreessen invented Netscape, went on to create maybe the most substantial or at least the most storied venture capital firm around. So they're in. But let me tell you what the service is. So this is extremely vague, but I'm going to tell you why I'm excited about it. So he's creating some kind of community-driven, experience-centric service that would change the nature of residential real estate. Does that sound good to you? Would you put a billion dollars into that?

So it's meant to deal with the housing crisis. Some kind of community-driven, experience-centric service to deal with the fact that there's a housing crisis. How do you interpret that? Well, I'm going to over-interpret it. Here's my interpretation. How long have you heard me say that the problem with home ownership and renting, really all of our housing, is that it's just poorly designed? It's not designed from the ground up to meet our lifestyle and our needs.

I think what he's doing is designing a place you can live that's right from the ground up. Now when I hear, if you gave me, here's the example I use all the time: the best lifestyle I ever had was in a cinder block room with one other person, my roommate in college. A college dormitory with a shared bathroom down the hall was the best living experience I've ever had. The second best is a 19,000 square foot mansion that requires an army of people to maintain it and takes all of my time, and every day I wish I didn't have to do it. Even the best kind of home ownership kind of sucks. It does. I mean, there are tons of benefits, right? You know that's why you do it. But every day I wish I didn't own a home. I wish there was some other way to just lead my life without the burden of owning a home.

And I could afford a different kind of home. The reason I built my own home, which cost approximately twice as much as buying, if you've ever tried to build a house you know it's pretty expensive. The only way you can get something that's even modestly acceptable is to build it yourself, because there's no home builder who's building homes for our modern lifestyle that fits our economics and our health needs and our social needs and all that.

I've got a feeling that this WeWork thing, and largely because Andreessen Horowitz is behind it, I've got a feeling that they're going directly at the lifestyle part of living. Because homes are built as little containers. They're built as containers for people. Oh, we built a good container. We'll put you in the container. But if you started from how do you make an awesome life, how do you create a situation where you're naturally interacting with people in a way that's positive, you're not secluded in your little cell, you have some kind of reason to deal with other people. And it might be something like, for example, one of the best things about college was the cafeteria. So the cafeteria was everything you wanted was free once you'd paid a monthly fee. So you could eat as much as you wanted of anything you wanted, and it was a really good cafeteria. The choices were awesome and they changed all the time. And I never had to cook. I never had to clean dishes. I never had to shop. I never had to follow a recipe. And I ate great food every single day.

It turned out that our cafeteria in my college was a model cafeteria for the company that managed cafeterias for colleges. So whatever was the best stuff they wanted to use to showcase their other stuff, they're doing it at my little college. So we had just a great situation.

Now if you said to me, Scott, I will take away your gigantic house that you designed yourself and I will give you a space that's got a nice view and the cafeteria, and you'll have a reason to interact with other people, it'll be healthy, I feel like I might go for it. Right? If it meant my basic needs had enough rooms and had an office, for example, I feel like it would be better. Yeah, yeah. It's like assisted living but maybe the turbo version of that for younger people.

So like I've said, I think residential housing is the biggest market in the next 50 years. It will dwarf everything else. And the reason is we're going to have to tear down and rebuild everything because there are no homes in existence that meet our lifestyles. Not even close. Like housing is completely broken, and it's going to be disrupted.

So are you following the Berenson case where Berenson got kicked off of Twitter for, what's his first name? Why am I forgetting his first name? Berenson. His first name Alex, right? Alex Berenson. So he was saying lots of things that let's say the experts did not think were true about the pandemic. So he got booted off of Twitter. But now apparently they're going to let him back. And there's some documentation showing that the Biden administration may have been encouraging Twitter to kick him off for misinformation according to them.

Now I'm going to test you here. Probably most of you are familiar with Alex Berenson, a famous let's say skeptic of the government's handling of the pandemic in lots of di