Introducing WeCrashed
WeCrashed
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4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
The founders of WeWork thought they were on the brink of making history. The company was valued at $47 billion dollars, ready for a huge IPO, and its charismatic CEO Adam Neumann believed he was going to change the world. Adam and his wife Rebekah had a prophet-like vision—but did it ever match the company's reality? Now the inspiration for a new AppleTV+ series starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway, WeCrashed: The Director’s Cut is a complete refresh of our original six-part series. Hosted by David Brown of the hit podcast Business Wars, this six-part series includes new interviews and new discoveries about the rise and fall of WeWork. It’s a story of hope and hubris, big money and bigger screwups, and the lengths people will go to chase “unicorns".
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to We Crash, add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:14.0 | Lisa Skye, Hayne, love working with people. |
| 0:16.0 | I want to do something that really lights me up. I love creating community, connecting people. |
| 0:21.0 | She was excited about her new job. |
| 0:23.0 | Day one, literally 8 a.m. I have an email that says, good morning. |
| 0:27.0 | Let's create the largest networking community on the planet. |
| 0:31.0 | Lisa's new boss was a six foot five entrepreneur from Israel named Adam Newman. |
| 0:36.0 | And he had a brand new startup called WeWork. |
| 0:39.0 | I remember thinking, all right, I'm about to be on a ride. |
| 0:44.0 | Why is this a better idea for millennials than working at home or finding an office? |
| 0:50.0 | We like to say this is for the regeneration. It's not limited by age or gender. |
| 0:54.0 | He said that they were elevating the consciousness of people on the planet. |
| 0:59.0 | It was a billion dollar idea. |
| 1:01.0 | The co-working giant WeWork is amongst the most valuable startups in the world. |
| 1:05.0 | Downtown Vancouver. |
| 1:07.0 | We work here in the Shantya. We work. We work. We work. |
| 1:11.0 | That's it, WeWork. We work. |
| 1:14.0 | Who does this? |
| 1:17.0 | Do all the people in Deloitte go, de, loit, de, loit? |
| 1:20.0 | Or Goldman Sachs? Goldman Sachs? Nobody does that. |
| 1:23.0 | Nobody does that. It's weird. It's just so weird. |
| 1:27.0 | Braumwondry, the makers of Dr. Death and Business Wars, |
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