Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

it wasn’t the idea that mattered, but what you did with it.

Knotel sent a retrofitted school bus of its own to WeWork locations in the city.

“supervoting” shares had become popular in Silicon Valley,

pointed out that no one had successfully found a way to “scale” a feeling of community, which required time and effort and a personalized touch

“The beauty of his idea was not to create a translator but to sell it,” Mozer said later. “It was clear from the very beginning that he was an entrepreneurial genius.”

“You’ve got three options: fast, right, or cheap,” Kramer said. “WeWork always picked fast and cheap.”

Adam quietly made the trip to DC, visiting Kushner at the White House, and he decided to stay silent on the travel ban. At the end of the day, why cause trouble for a friend?

WeWork felt flush enough to fly all two thousand of its employees to California for the weekend.

In December of 2017, just a year after opening its one hundredth location, in Berlin, WeWork opened its two hundredth, in Singapore.