Metadata#
- Author(s): Reeves Wiedeman
- Number of pages: 352
- Year published: 2020
- Year read: 2022
Review#
A brisk and frisky journalist’s account of the, indeed, spectacular fall of WeWork. I have, like many people, used WeWorks. They’re fine. They’re very Millennial. And Millennials are getting old, people. I’m an old Millennial and even my “young Millennial” friends are using outdated slang. It’s not 2012 anymore!
I wonder what gen Z people think of the WeWork aesthetic, or I guess their offices will be in the metaverse.
Anyway, I had no idea about Adam Neumann. I had tangentially heard about some of his more egregious “crazy billionaire” antics. This book was… wow. I hoovered it up in one sitting. The schadenfreude was, agh, chef’s kiss. Very enjoyable. You gotta read it to believe it. In Neumann’s defense, he’s just a symptom of a crazy system right now - VCs, startups, etc.