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🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Watch the Apple Original series WeCrashed, starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway. Now streaming only on Apple TV+
Adam Neumann is welcomed into a very exclusive club of real estate moguls and treated as a visionary. But as Adam’s demands, ego and vision grow, the “Spirit of We” starts to fade and his wife Rebekah becomes a bigger part of the company culture, some WeWorkers are even wondering if they’ve inadvertently become part of a cult.
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| 0:15.4 | A quick note that this episode contains some adult language. |
| 0:27.8 | It was May 2014, and a pretty impressive crowd had gathered inside a WeWork office in New |
| 0:33.8 | York's financial district. |
| 0:36.1 | Some of the most powerful men in New York's real estate scene, men who had amassed buildings |
| 0:41.2 | and fortunes over decades, men like Stephen Roth, the CEO of Fornado Realty Trust, one |
| 0:48.8 | of the largest commercial landlords in New York City. |
| 0:53.2 | They were all there to celebrate the expansion of WeWorks headquarters, and to invite a |
| 0:58.7 | new member to their special club. |
| 1:02.1 | WeWorks CEO, Adam Newman. |
| 1:05.3 | Stephen Roth got up to toast, Adam. |
| 1:09.1 | Roth is compact with gray hair around a balding dome. |
| 1:14.3 | He'd recently invested in WeWork, and he'd entrusted it with one of his company's most |
| 1:19.6 | ambitious and high-profile projects. |
| 1:22.7 | He stood under a net of black and white balloons and looked out at the room with his piercing blue |
| 1:29.2 | eyes. |
| 1:30.9 | Then in his Bronx accent, he roasted the young CEO. |
| 1:35.7 | Now Adam is a nice guy, but every time I see him, he always says, you asshole, you could |
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