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Yeet the Rich

WeWork Part One- Creepy Crawlers

Yeet the Rich

Emily Walsh and Daniel Moss

True Crime, Comedy, History

5.039 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This week we are getting into WeWork, a company that was meant to change the world but was really just renting office space and creating a new and fun way to spend ALOT someone elses money. We talk about founders Adam Neumann, Rebekah Newmann, and Miguel McKelvey. Starting with their backgrounds and then getting into the begining of WeWork. Fueled with Delusions and Vibes, Weworks Rise and Fall should be a really fun one and we hope you enjoy! Sources: “Billion Dollar Los...

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0:00.0

But don't be ashamed if you get confused when you talk to your friends or you watch the news.

0:10.0

They try to tell you where all went wrong.

0:13.0

Now you don't need to argue, just sing this song.

0:17.0

It was rich people stacking the dick, rich people with big pack checks, rich people, they're having a ball, rich people been f*** us on.

0:36.6

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Yeat the Rich. I'm Emily Walsh and I'm here with my co-host and husband, Danny Moss.

0:46.4

Hello. Hello. Hello. And we have eased on down the Silk Road. We've moved on. Yeah. Dot org.

0:54.0

Feeling good. Feeling good. Ready to learn about some new stuff. I am back in the driver's seat. Yeah. Are you ready? Driving and thriving. Driving and thriving. So we are, we're moving on to a new topic. I teased a topic last week, if you were an avid listener, that I am not actually going to do at this moment. I was reading

1:13.3

a book called The Snakehead, and it is a really interesting story about a Chinese immigrant that

1:19.5

smuggles Chinese people into the U.S., but I'm kind of having trouble deciding how much I want to eat this person. It's kind of more of a

1:30.0

complicated story and I want to be able to, it is an interesting story so I do think eventually it

1:35.9

will end up on the podcast, but I wanted a little more time to be a little more nuanced about it

1:40.3

because it wasn't just your straight up get rid-this millionaire kind of chit-chat.

1:45.0

So instead, we are going to do a classic startup unicorn delusional dumb-dum.

1:53.4

Ooh, exciting.

1:54.5

Yes, this week and for the next few weeks, we will be talking about Adam Newman and

1:59.8

WeWork.

2:04.2

I honestly don't know how we haven't done this one yet. It is one of the classics. Yeah, we've bumped into them a couple of times.

2:08.9

Oh, and there's, there's so much crossover in this unicorn tech startup world. Like, I breeze through

2:16.2

these books now because now I'm like, oh, and this is where they go to Benchmark Capital and this is where they talk to the... Like, it's really crazy. Is Coach Dad in this one? Coach Dad is in this one. Oh, wow. Yeah, he's in here. Bill Gurley. Bill Gurley. And turns out he wants them to have data and information and good ideas. And they were like, hey,

2:36.3

what if we just had ambition and vibes? And he was like, vibes are not good for crunching numbers.

2:42.9

So we'll get to him. We will get to him. But yeah, I'm honestly really surprised how we have not yet gotten to this.

2:51.6

Yeah.

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