WeWork Part 7: In the End, There Was Adam
After WeWork's failed IPO, thousands of employees were laid off and the company teetered on the brink of collapse. Meanwhile, ousted CEO Adam Neumann flew to Israel with a generous exit package in han...
30 Juli 202041min
WeWork Part 6: IPO -- Just Kidding
WeWork had spent nine years chasing lightning-fast growth, burning billions of dollars, and expanding around the world. In 2019, the company reached a turning point: WeWork needed even more cash, and ...
23 Juli 202041min
Introducing: Blood River, A New Podcast From Bloomberg
The killers of Berta Caceres had every reason to believe they’d get away with murder. More than 100 other environmental activists in Honduras had been killed in the previous five years, yet almost no ...
21 Juli 20203min
WeWork Part 5: The Universe Does Not Allow Waste
Adam Neumann always had wild ambitions. By 2017, he had found an even wilder investor who wanted to fund those ambitions: SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. Adam spent his billions from SoftBank on competiti...
16 Juli 202035min
WeWork Part 4: WeWork Sued Her the Same Day
What happened at WeWork when things got ugly between the company and its employees? As WeWork expanded, a handful of employees wanted to speak out and interrupt the public image that WeWork was presen...
9 Juli 202031min
WeWork Part 3: Is Naked Pete Coming to Summer Camp?
To its thousands of employees, WeWork was much more than a job. Founder Adam Neumann leveraged his employees’ emotions to motivate them. In exclusive tapes obtained by Bloomberg, Adam lectured employe...
2 Juli 202033min
WeWork Part 2: The Bar Is Now at Your Desk
WeWork sold office space, but also it sold something else: fun. Beer flowed freely, members partied at the office, and your work was your life. But getting these offices off the ground was utter chaos...
25 Juni 202031min
WeWork Part 1: Capitalist Kibbutz
The WeWork Story, Part 1:When Adam Neumann dreamed up WeWork, he took inspiration from part of his childhood: his years on a kibbutz in Israel. On stage when discussing WeWork, he waxed poetic about t...
25 Juni 202033min
