The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork
by Reeves Wiedeman
Recommended by Samir Arora
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Begins like a magazine-long narrative and keeps a strong storytelling tempo: scene-by-scene reconstructions, sourced anecdotes, and glossy-brand theatre make the company’s trajectory easy to picture. Most useful are the chapters that dramatize board rooms, investor pitches, and rapid expansion decisions—they convert abstract risk into memorable incidents. Limiting: it leans into anecdote and color over concise financial tables or systematic explanation, so readers seeking lean analysis may find stretches repetitive or light on hard accounting.
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“Vivid, carefully reported drama that readers will gulp down as if it were a fastpaced novel” (Ken Auletta) The inside story of WeWork and its CEO, Adam Neumann, which tells the remarkable saga of one of the most audacious, and improbable, rises and falls in American business history In its earliest days, WeWork promised the impossible: to mak...
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Samir Arora
“Finished Billion Dollar Loser story of WeWork by @reeveswiedeman Enjoyed all the wild stories about Adam Neumann. Great reading. You will also realize how sane public markets are compared to private equity.”
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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