
The Cult of We
WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
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Wall Street Journal best seller
A Financial Times, Fortune, and NPR Best Book of the Year
“The riveting, definitive account of WeWork, one of the wildest business stories of our time.” (Matt Levine, Money Stuff columnist, Bloomberg Opinion)
The definitive story of the rise and fall of WeWork (also depicted in the upcoming Apple TV+ series WeCrashed, starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway), by the real-life journalists whose Wall Street Journal reporting rocked the company and exposed a financial system drunk on the elixir of Silicon Valley innovation.
Longlisted for the Financial Times and Mckinsey Business Book of the Year Award
WeWork would be worth $10 trillion, more than any other company in the world. It wasn’t just an office space provider. It was a tech company - an AI startup, even. Its WeGrow schools and WeLive residences would revolutionize education and housing. One day, mused founder Adam Neumann, a Middle East peace accord would be signed in a WeWork. The company might help colonize Mars. And Neumann would become the world’s first trillionaire.
This was the vision of Neumann and his primary cheerleader, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son. In hindsight, their ambition for the company, whose primary business was subletting desks in slickly designed offices, seems like madness. Why did so many intelligent people - from venture capitalists to Wall Street elite - fall for the hype? And how did WeWork go so wrong?
In little more than a decade, Neumann transformed himself from a struggling baby clothes salesman into the charismatic, hard-partying CEO of a company worth $47 billion - on paper. With his long hair and feel-good mantras, the six-foot-five Israeli transplant looked the part of a messianic truth teller. Investors swooned, and billions poured in.
Neumann dined with the CEOs of JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, entertaining a parade of power brokers desperate to get a slice of what he was selling: the country’s most valuable startup, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and a generation-defining moment.
Soon, however, WeWork was burning through cash faster than Neumann could bring it in. From his private jet, sometimes clouded with marijuana smoke, he scoured the globe for more capital. Then, as WeWork readied a Hail Mary IPO, it all fell apart. Nearly $40 billion of value vaporized in one of corporate America’s most spectacular meltdowns.
Peppered with eye-popping, never-before-reported details, The Cult of We is the gripping story of careless and often absurd people - and the financial system they have made.
©2021 Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell (P)2021 Random House AudioLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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In just a decade and a half, Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings who started out as an English teacher, founded Alibaba and built it into one of the world's largest companies, an e-commerce empire on which hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers depend. Alibaba's $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the largest global IPO ever. A Rockefeller of his age who is courted by CEOs and presidents around the world, Jack is an icon for China's booming private sector.
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Strange: Best part of story happens "off-screen"
- De Tristan en 09-02-16
De: Duncan Clark
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White House, Inc.
- How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into a Business
- De: Dan Alexander
- Narrado por: Noah Michael Levine
- Duración: 6 h y 32 m
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White House, Inc. is a newsmaking exposé that details President Trump’s efforts to make money off of politics, taking us inside his exclusive clubs, luxury hotels, overseas partnerships, commercial properties, and personal mansions. Alexander tracks hundreds of millions of dollars flowing freely between big businesses and President Trump. He explains, in plain language, how Trump tried to translate power into profit, from the 2016 campaign to the ramp-up to the 2020 campaign.
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Required reading for all Americans
- De Gregor en 10-11-20
De: Dan Alexander
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Smart People Should Build Things
- How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America
- De: Andrew Yang
- Narrado por: Tim Paige
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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In Smart People Should Build Things, this self-described "recovering lawyer" and entrepreneur weaves together a compelling narrative of success stories (including his own), offering observations about the flow of talent in the United States and explanations of why current trends are leading to economic distress and cultural decline. He also presents recommendations for both policy makers and job seekers to make entrepreneurship more realistic and achievable.
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Smart doesn’t mean smart.
- De Will en 03-21-20
De: Andrew Yang
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Too Good to Be True
- The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff
- De: Erin Arvedlund
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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Erin Arvedlund, the financial reporter who questioned the amazing returns of Bernie Madoff's hedge funds way back in 2001, traces the life of the infamous swindler and addresses the tough questions surrounding the collapse of his Ponzi scheme.
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Doesn't add much more that a lot of details.
- De Robert en 11-07-10
De: Erin Arvedlund
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Samsung Rising
- The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech
- De: Geoffrey Cain
- Narrado por: Michael Braun
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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Based on years of reporting on Samsung for The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and Time, from his base in South Korea, and his countless sources inside and outside the company, Geoffrey Cain offers a penetrating look behind the curtains of the biggest company nobody in America knows. Seen for decades in tech circles as a fast follower rather than an innovation leader, Samsung today has grown to become a market leader in the United States and around the globe.
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Misleading title
- De Kevin en 02-25-21
De: Geoffrey Cain
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Mastering the VC Game
- A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-Up to IPO on Your Terms
- De: Jeffrey Bussgang
- Narrado por: Ramon De Ocampo
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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Finding the right venture capitalist to back your start-up is a challenge. Even if you manage to get backing, you want your VC to be a partner, not some dictator who will undermine your vision and take control of your life's work. Jeffrey Bussgang is one of a very few people who have played on both sides of this high-stakes game. Now he draws on his unique perspective to offer high-level insights, colorful stories, and practical advice. He reveals how to get noticed, perfect a pitch, and negotiate a partnership that works for everyone.
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slow in beginning but gets really good
- De Diana en 04-11-19
De: Jeffrey Bussgang
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The Lost Bank
- The Story of Washington Mutual - The Biggest Bank Failure in American History
- De: Kirsten Grind
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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During the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Washington Mutual, a bank with hundreds of billions of dollars in its coffers, suffered a crippling bank run. The story of its final, brutal collapse in the autumn of 2008, and its controversial sale to JPMorgan Chase, is an astonishing account of how one bank lost itself to greed and mismanagement, and how the entire financial industry - and even the entire country - lost its way as well. Kirsten Grind’s The Lost Bank is a magisterial and gripping account of these events.
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Sad and Angry by Turn
- De Johnnie Walker en 07-24-12
De: Kirsten Grind
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The Bank That Lived a Little
- Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market
- De: Philip Augar
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
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Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank That Lived a Little is the story of one of the most familiar names on the British high street since Big Bang in 1986. Philip Augar describes in detail three decades of boardroom intrigue driven by ruthless ambition, grandiose dreams and a desire for wealth. It is a tale of a struggle for long-term supremacy between rival strategies and their adherents.
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Global superstar bankers under light-touch gov
- De Philo en 12-21-18
De: Philip Augar
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Ahead of the Curve
- Two Years at Harvard Business School
- De: Philip Delves Broughton
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
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In 2004 Philip Delves Broughton abandoned a post as Paris bureau chief of the London Daily Telegraph to join 900 other would-be tycoons on the Harvard Business School's plush campus. With acute and often uproarious candor, he assesses the school's success at teaching the traits it extols as most important in business: leadership, decisiveness, ethical behavior, and work/life balance.
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On one breath.
- De Atkins en 05-17-22
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The Liar's Ball
- The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons
- De: Vicky Ward
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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Harry Macklowe is one of the most notorious wheelers and dealers of the real-estate world, and The Liar's Ball is the story of the gamblers and thieves who populate his world. Watch as Harry makes the gutsy bid for midtown Manhattan's famous GM building and puts almost no money down, landing the billion-dollar transaction that made him the poster child for New York's real-estate royalty. Listen in on the secret conversations, back-door deals, and blackmail that put Macklowe and his cronies on top - and set them up for an enormous fall.
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Excellent. Hope Biden Gets Covered Next
- De greenemann en 07-29-21
De: Vicky Ward
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Finish Big
- How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top
- De: Bo Burlingham
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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When pioneering business journalist and Inc. magazine editor at large Bo Burlingham wrote Small Giants, it became an instant classic for its original take on a common business problem - how to handle the pressure to grow. Now Burlingham is back to tackle an even more common problem - how to exit your company well. Sooner or later, all entrepreneurs leave their businesses and all businesses get sold, given away, or liquidated.
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Begin with the end in mind
- De D. Hartzell en 02-05-15
De: Bo Burlingham
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Red Roulette
- An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China
- De: Desmond Shum
- Narrado por: Tim Chiou
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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As Desmond Shum was growing up impoverished in China, he vowed his life would be different. Through hard work and sheer tenacity he earned an American college degree and returned to his native country to establish himself in business. There, he met his future wife, the highly intelligent and equally ambitious Whitney Duan who was determined to make her mark within China’s male-dominated society. Whitney and Desmond formed an effective team and, aided by relationships they formed with top members of China’s Communist Party, the so-called red aristocracy.
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Desmond Shum is not a rube! He knows about wine, ok?
- De Peter L Hansen en 10-06-21
De: Desmond Shum
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Dethroning the King
- The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon
- De: Julie MacIntosh
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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How did InBev, a Belgian company controlled by Brazilians, take over one of America's most beloved brands after barely a whimper of a fight? With timing - and some unexpected help from powerful members of the Busch dynasty, the very family that had run the company for more than a century. From the very heart of America's heartland to the European continent to Brazil, Dethroning the King is the ultimate corporate caper and a fascinating case study that's both wide-reaching and profound.
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Good Story but Narration Can be Annoying
- De Ken en 10-21-11
De: Julie MacIntosh
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Now a number-one international best seller, Billion Dollar Whale is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history. In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude—one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system.
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The Smartest Guys in the Room
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The definitive volume on Enron's amazing rise and scandalous fall, from an award-winning team of Fortune investigative reporters.
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An honest portrait of DPR
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Roger Lowenstein, the bestselling author of Buffett, captures Long-Term's roller-coaster ride in gripping detail. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein crafts a story that reads like a first-rate thriller from beginning to end. He explains not just how the fund made and lost its money, but what it was about the personalities of Long-Term's partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the late-nineties culture of Wall Street that made it all possible.
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Today, PayPal’s founders and earliest employees are considered the technology industry’s most powerful network. Since leaving PayPal, they have formed, funded, and advised the leading companies of our era, including Tesla, Facebook, YouTube, SpaceX, Yelp, Palantir, and LinkedIn, among many others. As a group, they have driven 21st-century innovation and entrepreneurship. Their names stir passions; they’re as controversial as they are admired.
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In When McKinsey Comes to Town, two prizewinning investigative journalists have written a portrait of the company sharply at odds with its public image. Bogdanich and Forsythe have penetrated the veil of secrecy surrounding McKinsey by conducting hundreds of interviews, obtaining tens of thousands of revelatory documents, and following rule #1 of investigative reporting: Follow the money. When McKinsey Comes to Town is a a devastating portrait of a firm whose work has often made the world more unequal, more corrupt, and more dangerous.
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Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself from terminal brain cancer with a healthy diet. She built a global business based upon her claims. There was just one problem: she'd never had cancer. In 2015, journalists uncovered the truth: this hero of the wellness world, with over 200,000 followers, international book deals and a best-selling smartphone app, was a fraud.
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In 2016, the fate of Paramount Global’s entertainment empire hung precariously in the balance. Its founder and head, ninety-three-year-old Sumner M. Redstone, was facing a very public lawsuit brought by a former romantic companion, Manuela Herzer, which placed Sumner’s deteriorating health and questionable judgment under a harsh light.
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Arif Naqvi was charismatic, inspiring, and self-made—all the qualities of a successful business leader. The founder of Abraaj, a Dubai-based private-equity firm, Naqvi was the Key Man to the global elite searching for impact investments to make money and do good. In 2018, Simon Clark and Will Louch were contacted by an anonymous whistleblower who said Naqvi had swindled investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars and offered bribes to sustain his billionaire lifestyle. In April 2019—months after their exposé broke—Naqvi was arrested on charges of fraud and racketeering.
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Pulitzer Prize winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of the biggest names on Wall Street - Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine - created the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions - until a team of downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America's most expensive lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice.
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Ray Dalio does not want you to listen to this audiobook. Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down from the company he started out of his apartment nearly 50 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio cultivated an aura of international admiration and fame thanks to his company’s eye-popping success, coupled with a mystique he encouraged with frequent media appearances, celebrity hobnobbing, and his bestselling book, Principles.
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- Anne
- 09-24-21
Fantastic
Genius reporting and a genuinely fun read. Six out of five stars. Very good book.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-01-22
fascinating story
this is a terrific description of the We Work story and the obnoxious, self-absorbed and arrogant Adam Neumann and his spoiled flakey wife. well hindsight might be 20/20, a blind person could have seen that something wasn't right with the We Work propaganda. The perfect storm of greed that brought down this company is the same greed and stupidity that caused the entire housing market to crash in 2005 to 2012.
The reading was a bit off putting with way too many inflections and upswings in her voice.
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- Ihereou
- 12-11-22
Yeah. It's pretty good; however...
The narratior's performance is really good; however some parts feel out of place. I would recommend listen to this one before sleep. Her voice can calm even though it's about a man almost building a cult.
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- JB
- 08-16-21
An astounding story
Definitely worth reading. A look into the madness behind WeWork. A sobering story and a cautionary tale. Great narration.
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- Bill Dunn
- 04-19-22
Great listen!
Had to stop listening to this one!
A great ride from beginning to end - much more detail but just as much drama as We Crashed. Loved it!
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- znorthface
- 06-14-22
Entertaining and wild
Didn’t realize how wild the scene was, but did a great job of narrating the founding till it became a traded company.
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- Unhappy Sirius Camper
- 08-14-21
Great companion to "Billion Dollar Loser"
I really enjoyed "Billion Dollar Loser", so I had some trepidation about "The Cult of We". On the one hand, I wanted more of the story. On the other, I was worried that it would be duplicative.
The two books are actually complimentary: "Billion Dollar Loser" focuses more on the cult of Adam Neumann and examples of his ego and rage-inducing narcissism, while "The Cult of We" focuses more on the financial side of the debacle. "The Cult of We" also goes into great detail on startup financing and all of the related craziness of the last 20 years. I could see "The Cult of We" as a standard textbook in MBA programs.
Fast pace, great narration. Really enjoyed it.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-15-21
Less spicy than other "Business True Crime"
Adam had good intentions, believed in his company and simply got drifted too far into his fantasies, convincing investors along the way.
Compared with Elizabeth Holmes in Bad Blood, he is just an over-dreamy entrepreneur, no harm intended.
It was nice and interesting to hear the full story behind this epic rise and fall.
Therese Plummer did an excellent job narrating!
I wish more books were read by voices like hers.
I do 100% recommend Bad Blood.
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- BENNIE RHEEDER
- 10-05-23
Greed and gluttony
Great factual account of the WeWork disaster. Recommended for people who enjoy modern stories of greed, hubris and cult like organisations.
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- Privatebuyer
- 08-05-21
How to give a horrible story five stars
The epilogue begins by quoting F Scott Fitzgerald: “They were careless people.. “ That is an understatement. I make my living reading, writing and planning land-based investments. This is the second book I have read this summer on the Wework scandal. Well written and clearly told this book is about more than the waste of billions of US dollars at Wework. This book has made me more frequently nauseous and enraged than anything else I have ever read. Its worse than the stories about ponzi schemers. This story is about our penchant for messianic figures leading us to a Midas nirvana. It is about the myth of what is technology. It is about financing slight of hand promises rather than tangible goods, services and products. If you wish to become angry or ill, read this very good and clear book --. Avarice, narcissism and greed, or should that be gluttony. No they were not careless; they were intentional.
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