The Companion Podcast | Episode 1 with the TV Series’ Co-Creators | 1

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

🗓️ 18 March 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this first episode, host Scott Galloway unpacks the series premiere, “This Is Where It Begins,” with the show’s co-creators and co-writers, Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello. They talk about adapting the real-life story and Wondery podcast for the screen, the relationship between Adam and Rebekah, and why WeWork’s original $15 million funding (and self-proclaimed $45 million valuation) was a major turning point. Plus, Scott shares his “Yoga babble moment of the week.” WeCrashed: The Companion Podcast is produced by Wondery, with support from Pineapple Street Studios.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to WeCrash to add free on Amazon Music.
0:04.9	Download the app today.
0:07.0	Hi, everyone.
0:14.5	I'm Scott Galloway.
0:19.5	Welcome to WeCrash, the companion podcast.
0:23.0	I'm a marketing professor at NYU, an author and entrepreneur, and I've been following
0:27.4	the story of WeWork closely or more aptly critiquing it back in 2017.
0:32.9	I said it was the most overvalued company in the world.
0:35.9	I'm wrong a lot, but sometimes I get it right.
0:38.6	You may have heard me on the original WeCrash pod in Full Disclosure.
0:41.7	I also appear in the new TV series, or rather the character of Scott Galloway appears briefly.
0:46.5	They didn't even call.
0:48.2	As host of this podcast, I'll be delving into what's happening on the show and with the
0:52.3	people who made it, the creators, the actors, as well as the journalists who reported the
0:56.0	actual events will be unpacking what the story of WeWorks says about the business world
1:01.7	and the aftermath of the Great Recession and its unicorn hunting investors slash Enable
1:06.8	or Plus.
1:07.8	We'll question what the difference is between a cult and a company, a dreamer and a fraud.
1:13.8	So in the first episode of WeCrash, we see Adam in his early days in New York trying
1:17.3	to make it as a serial entrepreneur.
1:19.5	Crawler's, one's is with knee pads for babies just because they can't tell you, doesn't
1:24.2	mean they don't hurt.
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