WeWork is going public — here's everything you need to know

• WeWork is the most valuable startup to head for the public markets since Uber earlier this year. But as it does so, it's facing some big questions that could dampen investors' enthusiasm for its shares, and dog its stock into the future. Here are the 5 biggest questions facing WeWork as it prepares for its IPO.
  
  
• WeWork's S-1 shows how big the company thinks it can get, and gives a sense of the high costs of getting there. In the filing, WeWork lays out a path to profitability – but most of its options involve slowing its breakneck growth.
  
  
• Adam Neumann, the cofounder and CEO of The We Company, has been criticized in the past for perceived conflicts of interest between his investments and WeWork. Now potential investors are getting a closer look at Neumann's web of loans, real-estate deals, and family involvement with the company.
  
  
• WeWork is trying to pitch itself as a tech firm to investors, not as a real estate company. Investors tend to pay a premium for tech companies. But these 5 slides illustrate how its numbers tell a different story.
  
  
• WeWork's upcoming IPO will likely turn its CEO Neumann into a billionaire many times over. But that won't be much consolation to one of Neumann's portfolio investments, British energy startup Faraday Grid, which collapsed on Wednesday — the same day WeWork filed to go public. Here's what happened.