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Hi, I'm Ellen Hewitt.

I'm a reporter for Bloomberg technology.

You're hearing from me now because we're making some changes. Last year we aired our

final episode of Decrypted and since then our podcast team at Bloomberg

Technology has been hard at work on something new. It's a serialized show called

Foundering. Each season, our reporters will bring you inside one big story, focusing on the high-stakes dramas of Silicon Valley.

This season, we're telling the story of Adam Newman and his controversial company

We Work. I've been reporting on We Work for four years now and when I first

started I thought it was just like any other startup.

But I realized really early on that there was more to this story,

that Wework was a weird company that did weird stuff.

And it started raising a lot of money, getting more attention.

And then by the time the whole world was watching, it all fell apart.

I want to give you a sense of what we Work was really like, how it all unfolded.

There were so many parts of my reporting that I couldn't quite fit into print stories that

I'm really excited to dig into here. We'll spend a whole season following We Works wild ride from hot startup to failed IPO and beyond.

We're telling you about the new show because we think you'll like it.

Just like Decrypted, Foundering will use Bloomberg's expert reporting to illuminate the biggest topics in technology.

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