It seems odd to me to take WeWork as the example - it's the <i>worst</i> example. The market worked fine with WeWork, they burned a load of money in a business model that had no moat with no real plan of how they'd make the business profitable. The business wasn't profitable and so it went bankrupt. The interesting thing about WeWork is that they essentially took a silicon valley playbook - which is normally applied to products that have high fixed, low variable costs - and applied it to an industry where their entire costs were variable.<p>I don't see why you would try to solve this problem on the front end. It is perfectly fine for WeWork or Uber to throw money at customers and give the average consumer a free lunch. What is failing is on the back end. The whole premise of these business models is "If we get to monopoly scale, we're going to exploit our monopoly". But... we already know monopolies are bad, there's nothing unique to start ups here. The simple answer is just enforce monopoly law. If it turns out that Uber has a huge market share and is using that to price gouge then step in with anti-monopoly laws.<p>I think the closest thing you can come to this being a start up thing is the Softbank model, where Softbank owns stakes in so many different players in a single market that they effectively are operating a cartel.<p>What you really want is a healthy market regulator that tackles monopolies so that Venture Capitalists don't think "Grow this until we can exploit our monopoly" is a good strategy.