#615 How WeWork Grew, Fell From Grace, and Recovered

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Eliot Brown writes about startups and venture capital out of The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco office. He previously covered commercial real estate and economic development from New York City. Eliot’s new book, The Cult of We, breaks down what happened over the last few years with WeWork. In this conversation, we discuss WeWork, startup funding, Adam Neumann, Softbank, and a few crazy stories. ======================= Remote makes it easy for companies of all sizes to employ global teams. We take care of international payroll, benefits, taxes, and local compliance, so you can focus on growing your business. Sign up for Remote today and receive 50% off your first employee for the first three months. Check out remote.com/pomp and enter promo code POMP to get started. ======================= BlockFi provides financial products for crypto investors. Products include high-yield interest accounts, USD loans, and no fee trading. To start earning today visit: http://www.blockfi.com/Pomp ======================= Choice is a new self-directed IRA product that I'm really excited about. If you are listening to this, you are likely part of the 7.1 million bitcoin owners who have retirement accounts with dollars in them, but not bitcoin. I was in that situation too. Now you can actually buy real Bitcoin in your retirement account. I'm talking about owning your private keys and using tax-advantaged dollars to do it too. Absolute game changer. https://www.retirewithchoice.com/pomp =======================

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp
0:07.4	podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Now let's kick this thing off.
0:12.0	Elliot Brown writes about startups and venture capital out of the Wall Street Journal's San Francisco
0:16.2	office. He previously covered commercial real estate and economic development from New York City.
0:21.2	Elliot's new book, The Cult of We, breaks down what happened over the last few years with WeWork.
0:26.0	In this conversation, we discuss WeWork, Startup Funding, Adam Newman, SoftBank, and a few crazy stories.
0:32.3	I really enjoyed this conversation with Elliot, and I hope you do as well.
0:36.7	Before we get into this episode, though,
0:38.1	I want to quickly talk about our sponsors. First up is remote. When you use remote, you can
0:42.8	employ people in other countries legally and easily. They take care of international payroll,
0:47.8	employee benefits, tax headaches, and all the paperwork for local compliance. Forget about
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1:12.3	a remote today and receive 50% off your first employee for the first three months. Check out
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1:27.2	today and you'll see why.
1:29.2	Next up is BlockFi. I'm an investor in the business. I'm a user. I sit on the board. I'm a very,
1:34.5	very happy user and so will you. BlockFi provides financial products for crypto investors.
1:39.5	Those products include a high yield interest account, a US dollar loan against your crypto collateral,
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