A Start-Up Letdown

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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On the Gist, today on Remembrances of Things Trump, we look back on Trump's 2017 visit to the annual Boy Scout Jamboree. In the interview, Mike talks with Reeves Weideman, contributing editor at New York magazine and author of Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork. Weideman explains the internal drama inside Neumann's fast-scaling, overly hyped WeWork, an office space leasing company billed as an in-person social network, as well as the lessons entrepreneurs can learn from disruptors attempting to grow quickly and remain profitable. In the spiel, the lobstar of the antentwig. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Margaret Kelley and Lori Galarreta. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	The following program may contain language that is explicit
0:34.0	and by explicit, I mean implicitly, not two words.
0:42.0	It's Wednesday, November 25th, 2020, from slated to justime, Mike Pesca.
0:46.0	This is a time for joy and reflection, and as I like to look at it,
0:51.0	for the giving of thanks, and that is why I celebrate Kudos granting.
0:56.0	Some call it Thanksgiving.
0:58.0	President Trump phoned into a kind of ginned-up Republican only hearing about ballots
1:03.0	in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in an attempt to dispute the election.
1:07.0	Gettysburg, a fine locale for turning back illiberal threats to the Republic.
1:11.0	I'm also thankful or give Kudos to the fact that every bite and a pointy
1:16.0	is a veritable symphony of competence and life experience compared to the kazoo
1:21.0	huffing members of the Trump cabinet.
1:23.0	Anthony Blinken, multi-lingual, deeply experienced coalition builder.
1:28.0	Trump's first secretary of state, oil man, and he was much better than the next guy.
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