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He really is the epitome of startup failure. by - 12/22/2019, 9:18am PST
Alfred E. Neumann wrote:

WeWork founder will get nearly $1.7 billion to let SoftBank take over his company

You will never, ever get paid as much to succeed as this guy got paid to fail. Well played.


It’s so easy to focus on Adam Neumann, the tall, long-haired, barefoot, meat-banning, weed-smoking, tequila-drinking, Kabbalah-studying, experimental school-opening Paltrow-cousin-in-law and founder and now deposed chief executive officer of the We Company, the real estate company that dropped “Work” from its name after it bought the copyright for the word “We” from Neumann himself.

Neumann’s ambitions were as ludicrous as his persona. “Rather than just renting desks,” Fast Company reported in January, “the company aims to encompass all aspects of people’s lives, in both physical and digital worlds.” This included expanding the WeWork model to residential housing and education. Before Neumann had even started the company, he had envisioned “WeSleep to WeSail to WeBank”. While none of these will ever be realised, perhaps he was right to think beyond office space subleasing. The company as he had built it is in crisis.


His idea was fucking Uber for desks. If I have any money, I take one look at that asshole and I leave the meeting. He isn't some Steve Jobs type of hippie with the greatest computer mind in the world sitting next to him, he doesn't have some revolutionary idea. GUYS REMEMBER DESKS?

What a fucking failure.
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What, We Worry? by Alfred E. Neumann 10/22/2019, 11:24am PDT NEW
    Ah, WeWork. Uber for desks. NT by HAKEEM THE DREAM 10/22/2019, 12:41pm PDT NEW
    He really is the epitome of startup failure. by - 12/22/2019, 9:18am PST NEW
 
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