The Cult of We

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Eliot Brown of the Wall Street Journal joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Stacy-Marie Ishmael to talk about his book The Cult of We about the wild rise of WeWork under its eccentric founder Adam Neumann, attempting to answer their many questions such as, “Why?”. They talk blitzscaling, founder control, and why we keep giving white men with good hair so much money. In the Plus segment: Unpublished tidbits from Eliot’s book. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @s_m_i, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello!
0:17.0	Welcome to the cult of Wii episode of Slate Money. Your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.
0:20.0	I'm Felix Simon of Axios.
0:22.0	I'm here with Emily Peck of Fundrise.
0:24.0	Hello. I'm here with Stacey Marie Ishmael.
0:28.0	Hello.
0:29.0	And we are here with Elliot Brown.
0:32.0	Elliot welcome.
0:33.4	Thank you for having me. Happy to be here.
0:35.4	Elliot, who are you and what have you just written?
0:40.3	I am co-author with my non-existing colleague here at the moment, Maureen Farrell, and I am co-author of the
0:47.5	cult of We Work Adam Newman and The Great Start Up Delusion.
0:51.7	And we are going to be talking to you this week about, I mean, delusion is a great word.
0:56.4	It is a fantastic story.
0:58.6	We're going to talk a bit about the story of Adam Newman, the story of We Work, the story of Massason, the whole idea of Blitz scaling.
1:06.0	We're going to talk about charismatic founders, we're going to talk about how hard it is for women
1:10.6	to raise money in Silicon Valley.
1:13.1	We have an amazing Slate Plus segment
1:16.8	which talks about some of the unbelievable crazy
1:19.8	that didn't even make it into the book.
1:21.5	If you are a connoisseur of Rebecca Newman anecdotes,
1:26.6	you're going to love that.
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