Posted on 09/30/2019 6:11:54 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
It was a glorious spring morning in New York, and sunlight streamed through the windows of 115 West 18th Street. This is the global headquarters of The We Company, and I was there to meet with its CEO and cofounder Adam Neumann. He greets me warmly as I am ushered to his office, and he gestures for me to follow him to a small room in the back of his workspace. He said he wanted to show me something.
He looked happy, smiling confidently, the way a guy sitting on top of company valued at $47 billion might.
The room in the back was small, Spartan—a stark contrast from the bustling We headquarters just beyond. It had one window, overlooking a small alley. A whiteboard sat in the corner and was covered with scribbles. Neumann blocked it with his long arms and politely asked me not to look. These were his private thoughts, he said. He comes here to meditate as well as to pray, he told me, nodding toward some beads lying on a small table. With his long black hair and T-shirt that read Always Love, it was very easy to picture Neumann sitting here in lotus pose, chanting mantras.
Hanging above the couch was what he brought me here to see: a massive picture of himself. It was not quite life-size—Neumann, as all profiles note, is 6’5″—but it took up most of the wall. Neumann was on a surfboard, gliding over a glassy sea. His lithe, athletic build, jet-black hair, and intense expression were striking.
But something else caught my eye. The water looked oddly flat. There was no curl or barrel or crest. It was hard to tell if there was a swell actually forming. I asked if he remembered how big the wave was. “Huge,”
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Ehud Barak and Rahm Emanuel were involved with financing for WeWork.
Never heard of cofounder or company
$47 billion in lease obligations...
“What, me worry?”
Famous Neuman saying.
What a bizarre story.
Genius is so often paired with madness.
[$47 billion in lease obligations...
“What, me worry?”
Famous Neuman saying.]
Skimmed through this - he sounds impaired and quite volatile.
But... he’s tall and lithe.
LOL
[But... he’s tall and lithe.
LOL]
This whole stuff that is going on ie, I have an idea so throw billions at me (don’t worry about making money), is really starting to feel like and look like the dotcom build up and collapse.
I’m sure this failure won’t ding him in the slightest. He got his cut first.
And has pretty hair.
He’s apparently mesmerized a lot of people, as cult leaders do.
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