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WeCrashed

Wondery

Stock Market, Startup, Real Estate, Adam Neumann, We Crashed, New York, Theranos, Business, Society & Culture, News, Wework, Wecrashed, Ipo, Tech, We Work, Silicon Valley

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Watch the Apple Original series WeCrashed, starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway. Now streaming only on Apple TV+

“Let’s build the largest networking community on the planet.” That was the email Adam Neumann sent at one in the morning to one of WeWork’s very first employees, before they had even a single tenant. So how do you turn a scrappy startup into a global empire? If you’re WeWork's CEO, you rely on charm, chutzpah, and a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to We Crash to add free on Amazon Music.
0:04.9	Download the app today.
0:07.0	Join Wondery Plus and Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app to binge all six episodes of We Crash
0:12.6	to the director's cut.
0:14.4	Add Free.
0:15.4	A quick note before we begin that this episode does contain some adult language.
0:27.4	It was June 2017 and the Barclays Center in Brooklyn was packed.
0:31.5	Nearly every seat of the arena was filled with thousands of Baruch college graduates and
0:35.8	their families.
0:36.8	I'm looking at all the parents, I'm looking at balloons, I'm seeing horns, just people
0:40.8	smiling.
0:41.8	I think I had a smile on my face probably the whole time.
0:44.2	Kwame Francis was graduating second in his class, which meant he had one of the best
0:48.5	seats in the house.
0:49.6	That was on stage and it was just like, wow, I'll be seated next to some distinguished
0:55.2	people.
0:56.2	A year before Senator Chuck Schumer had been the commencement speaker.
0:59.8	This year though was different because this year the person giving the speech was also
1:05.2	graduated just like Kwame.
1:08.0	Welcome Baruch College Class of 2017.
1:11.8	As soon as he walks on stage, this tall guy, long hair, slick back, and look like he's
1:17.0	just pulled out the roll out of his trunk and he's like, all right, I got to don this little
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