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Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and Wework
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- Reeves Wiedeman
- Back Bay Books
- Paperback
- 9780316461337
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- Business & Economics > Corporate & Business History - General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller: This vivid inside story of WeWork and its CEO tells the remarkable saga of one of the most audacious, and improbable, rises and falls in American business history (Ken Auletta).
Christened a potential savior of Silicon Valley's startup culture, Adam Neumann was set to take WeWork, his office share company disrupting the commercial real estate market, public, cash out on the company's forty-seven billion dollar valuation, and break the string of major startups unable to deliver to shareholders. But as employees knew, and investors soon found out, WeWork's capital was built on promises that the company was more than a real estate purveyor, that in fact it was a transformational technology company.
Veteran journalist Reeves Weideman dives deep into WeWork and it CEO's astronomical rise, from the marijuana and tequila-filled board rooms to cult-like company summer camps and consciousness-raising with Anthony Kiedis. Billion Dollar Loser is a character-driven business narrative that captures, through the fascinating psyche of a billionaire founder and his wife and co-founder, the slippery state of global capitalism.
A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller
Vivid, carefully reported drama that readers will gulp down as if it were a fast-paced novel (Ken Auletta)
Author Bio
Reeves Wiedeman is joining New York Magazine as a contributing editor. He’ll primarily write print features across a range of subjects, including sports, business, culture, and more. He has previously contributed pieces to the magazine about the most stoned suburb in America, a teenage Instagram phenomenon, and the city of Buffalo’s uprising against Jon Bon Jovi.
Before joining New York Magazine, Wiedeman worked at The New Yorker as a fact-checker and writer, writing mostly for “The Talk of the Town,” often about sports. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Grantland, and Men’s Journal, among others. He lives in Brooklyn but still refers to Kansas City as home.
Source: New York Magazine
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