Crazy Story about Adam Neumann, WeWork's former CEO

Looks like something from The Wolf of Wall Street.


My WeWork Story:

I'll share my own story about the time I met Adam. It was short and unexpected. I was at the Wework on Madison in an unrelated meeting. The community manager told me I should stay after because the founder was stopping by and "it would be cool". I thought to myself ok this is strange, why would he randomly walk around talking to people. That's not what happened at all. All of the sudden at exactly 5:30pm people started breaking out bottles of alcohol and office tables turned into beer pong tables. " interns" or models(?) All of the sudden swarmed the floor. It felt like I was in a well lit night club. Then Adam walked in through the elevator with like 20 more people and it really got crazy. A DJ came over the sound system out of nowhere. I thought to myself wtf is this... and a girl came up to me with a tray of shots and said "this is Wework".

 

Well I think he's smartest man i know, to have cashed out more money from the company than the company is actually worth. Definitely worth a movie/documentary/ book.

I'm pretty sure, with his ambition to become the 'President of the World', he would write a book about himself sometime soon.

 

Neumann is obviously a very intelligent guy. Mix high intelligence with sociopathy and you've got a person with a very good chance of becoming rich unethically but not illegally. Unfortunately for the rest of us, Neumann gives capitalism a bad name and provides justification for the authoritarians to make it more difficult for the rest of society to succeed.

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