With Bloomberg you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate,

behind your EV batteries environmental impact, behind sand. Yeah, sand, you get context.

And context changes everything go to bloom work

com to get context it's 2015 we work is growing super fast which means it's hiring

a lot of new people and And every Monday at Weworks headquarters

in New York City, that means one thing.

New hire orientation.

Orientations were massive.

They were huge. Like, they were every Monday almost, I feel like they

were almost every single Monday, huge breakfast spread. Cody Quinn was an

executive assistant at We Work. You know, they've got like a projection screen. Every single

morning you walk in. Um, what's that song? It's a cold play adventure of a lifetime was blasting and everybody's

walking around and like fist pumping and like all these new hires are high-fiving

and people are standing up and whooping and I'm like what is happening.

It like so that was the first time that I really had this like holy moly this feels cultish. Wow. Wow because like and then you've got

Somebody from HR like doing a presentation and they're just like who's excited at the year and it's like just it's crazy like a pepper

rally. It was nuts. It was absolutely nuts. Honestly it's still to this day

blows my mind. You're listening to Foundering. I'm your host, Ellen Hewitt. In the previous episode, we heard

about the explosive growth in the early days of We Work. The company was opening

building so fast that they were launching new offices

literally without doors without bathrooms with the paint still drying on the

walls. This episode is about hype. As Wework kept growing its CEO Adam Newman used a very

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