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Billion Dollar Loser by Reeves Wiedeman
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9781529385083
Published:
03 Jun 2021
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
352 pages
Dimensions:
196x128x28mm
Weight:
0.247kgs
Author:
The inside story of the rise and fall of WeWork, showing how the excesses of its founder shaped a corporate culture unlike any other. Christened a potential saviour 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 47 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.
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BUISNESS BOOK OF THE YEAR*
The remarkable inside story detailing the rise and fall of WeWork, perfect for readers of Too Big to Fail, The Smartest Guys in the Room, Liar's Poker and Apple TV's WeCrashed
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'A satisfying ticktock of the company's rapid rise and crash.' New York Times
'Exposes the sheer madness of WeWork.' Sunday Times
In its earliest days, WeWork promised the impossible: to make the workplace cool.
Adam Neumann, an immigrant determined to make his fortune in the United States, landed on the idea of repurposing surplus New York office space for the burgeoning freelance class. Over the course of ten years, WeWork attracted billions of dollars from some of the most sought-after investors in the world, while spending it to build a global real estate empire.
Based on more than two hundred interviews, Billion Dollar Loser chronicles the breakneck speed at which WeWork's CEO built and grew his company. Culminating in a day-by-day account of the five weeks leading up to WeWork's botched IPO and Neumann's dramatic ouster, Reeves Wiedeman exposes the story of the company's desperate attempt to secure the funding it needed in the final moments of a decade defined by excess.
With incredible access and piercing insight into the company, Billion Dollar Loser tells the full, inside story of WeWork and its CEO Adam Neumann who together came to represent the most audacious, and improbable, rise and fall in business.
'A frisky dissection of how a rickety real-estate leasing company tricked the world into seeing it as an immensely valuable, society-shifting tech unicorn.' WIRED
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*A Sunday Times Best Business Book of the Year*
*Fortune Best Book of the Year*
*New York Times' Books to Watch*
*WIRED Books to Read This Fall*
*Bloomberg's Nonfiction Title to Know this Fall*
*Newsweek's Must Read Fall Nonfiction*
*Publishers Weekly Top Ten for Business & Economics*
*InsideHook's Best Books for October*
About the Author: Reeves Wiedemann is Contributing Editor at New York magazine, and have written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Harper's, Men's Journal, and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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