Hello.

Welcome to the cult of we episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of the week. I'm Felix

Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Fundrise. Hello. I'm here with Stacey

Marie Ishmael. Hello. And we are here with Elliot Brown. Elliot, welcome. Thank you for

having me. Happy to be here. Uh, Elliot, who are you? And what have you just written?

I am co-author with my non-existing colleague here at the moment, Maureen Farrell, and I am co-author

of the cult of WeWork Adam Newman and the Great Startup Delusion.

And we are going to be talking to you this week about, I mean, delusion

is a great word. It is a fantastic story. We're going to talk a bit about the story of Adam

Newman, the story of WeWork, the story of Massasson, the whole idea of blitzscaling. We're going to

talk about charismatic founders. We're going to talk about how hard it is for women to raise money in

Silicon Valley. We have an amazing Slate Plus segment which talks about some of the

unbelievable crazy that didn't even make it into the book. If you are a connoisseur of Rebecca

Newman anecdotes, you're going to love that.

Definitely worth subscribing to Slate Plus for that one alone.

It's a great episode.

I can't wait for all to hear it.

It's all coming up on Slate Money.

So let's get started.

I think we should probably get started with Adam Newman, who is this, if he didn't exist,

you'd have to invent him kind of figure, but no one would believe you. He would be like one of those kind of like caricature capitalists and everyone would be like, no, no one's quite like

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