Welcome to the Not Old Better Show, I'm Paul Vogelzang, and this is episode number 425.

As part of our business build-out interview series, you're in for a treat. So many of you loved

the interview with David Brown host of Business Wars that we've been given a preview of his newest series we crashed.

And in just a minute you're going to hear that preview of we crashed.

By way of background you may recall the Tech Darling We Work, which was the poster child for a new economy.

We Work's founders wanted to revolutionize the way people work, how they live, sleep, and even how they raise their kids.

Its charismatic founder, Adam Newman, had an intoxicating vision for the company, but it never

matched up as reality.

From Wundery, the makers of Business Wars and Dirty John comes,

we crashed. A six-part series about the rise and fall of we work. It's a story of hope and

hubris. We crashed peals back the layers on how Newman's cult of personality shaped every square foot of we work and how that

same powerful personality destroyed it.

We're going to listen to a preview of the first episode of We crashed.

As you're listening, be sure to subscribe to We crashed

and other great wondery shows on Apple Podcasts

or wherever you're listening right now.

We'll put links to everything in the show notes.

It was June 2017 and the Barclay Center in Brooklyn was packed.

Nearly every seat of the arena was filled with thousands of Baruch college graduates and their families.

I'm looking at all the parents, I'm looking balloons I'm seeing horns just people smiling I think I had a smile on my face probably the whole time

Quamid Francis was graduating second in his class which meant he had one of the best seats in the House.

I was on stage and it was just like, wow, I'll be seated next to, you know, some distinguished people.

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