Table of Contents What is our target contribution margin percentage? Over the lifetime of a location, our target contribution margin percentage is 30%. Since the straight-lining of lease cost nets to zero over the lifetime of a lease, our target contribution margin percentage reflects zero impact from straight-lining of lease cost. What are the limitations of using our non-GAAP measures as supplemental measures? Our non-GAAP measures have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for analyzing our results as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations are: • they do not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs; • they do not reflect our interest expense or the cash requirements necessary to service interest or principal payments on our debt; • they do not reflect our tax expense or the cash requirements to pay our taxes; • they do not reflect historical capital expenditures or future requirements for capital expenditures or contractual commitments; • although non-cash GAAP straight-line lease costs are non-cash adjustments, these charges generally reflect amounts we will be required to pay our landlords in cash over the lifetime of our leases; • although stock-based compensation expenses are non-cash charges, we rely on equity compensation to compensate and incentivize employees, directors and certain consultants, and we may continue to do so in the future; and • although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized will often have to be replaced in the future, and these non-GAAP measures do not reflect any cash requirements for such replacements. How do we intend to enhance the reliability and relevance of our non-GAAP measures? Management and our board of directors are committed to making our non-GAAP measures reliable, transparent and useful to investors and management. Upon completion of this offering, our audit committee, which has the authority pursuant to its charter to use outside advisors as appropriate, will assume responsibility for overseeing the presentation and disclosure of our non-GAAP measures. Such oversight responsibilities will include understanding how management utilizes non-GAAP measures to evaluate performance and whether our non-GAAP measures are consistently prepared and presented from period to period. Upon completion of this offering, presentation and disclosure of our non-GAAP measures will be further subject to documented disclosure controls and procedures, and we intend to have in place a written non-GAAP policy that our audit committee will oversee which, among other things, we expect to address the determination of which charges and credits should be excluded from our non-GAAP measures. 77
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