In 2010, Sandeep Mathrani took over as chief executive of mall owner General Growth Properties, which had just filed for the largest-ever real estate bankruptcy. Mathrani raised billions of dollars to recapitalize the company, spun off struggling malls and eventually sold the firm for $15 billion. 

WeWork, another troubled real estate firm hoping for a turnaround, on Saturday named ...

As Airbnb prepares to go public, CEO Brian Chesky feels he has a great story to tell. Over the past decade, he has raised $3.2 billion from investors—and still has all of that in Airbnb’s coffers. It’s a fact he brings up repeatedly in interviews these days, as he no doubt braces for scrutiny that the public markets will bring.

It is indeed a significant achievement for a ...

At Airbnb’s board meeting two weeks ago, one topic took center stage: how to contain accelerating costs. It is a question that until relatively recently received scant attention inside Silicon Valley’s big-name startups. But a string of rejections by the public markets of some of the tech industry’s superstars has prompted companies once primarily concerned with rapid growth ...