I Worked At A WeWork For Four Months In 2016, And It Was The Worst
There’s a new doc about the coworking startup that gave me flashbacks
The new Hulu documentary WeWork: Or The Making And Breaking Of A$47 Billion Unicorn wants to expose the coworking startup as a fraud, much like billion-dollar biotech company Theranos. But unlike that notorious startup — which was run by charismatic charlatan Elizabeth Holmes who lied to investors repeatedly about a breakthrough device that could analyze blood — the controversy at the center of WeWork is co-founder and former CEO Adam Neumann, a touchy-feely bullshit artist whose main crime was getting high on his own supply.
He was a dude addicted to the sound of his own pitch; a skilled salesman who truly believed in Silicon Valley-style hippie-capitalism; an obnoxious two-headed cyclops that wants to make all the money and save the world. Only, the head for business is always poking out the eye of the head that just wants to help.
There’s a moment in the documentary when a smug business professor explains Neumann with the following rehearsed quip: “If you tell a thirtysomething male that he’s Jesus Christ, he’s inclined to believe you,”
In WeWork: Or The Making And Breaking Of A$47 Billion Unicorn, Adam Neumann dies for the sins of every…
