WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
2021·Documentary·1h 44m
7.0
★
Explore the rise and fall of one of the biggest corporate flameouts and venture capitalist bubbles in recent years – the story of WeWork, and its hippie-messianic leader Adam Neumann.
Directed by Jed Rothstein
economic crisis
eccentric millionaire
tech company
ipo
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Cast
Adam Neumann
Self (archive footage)
Crew
Wolfgang Held
Director of Photography
Ross M. Dinerstein
Producer
Popular Reviews
35 reviews
Matt
6.0★ · 03/01/24
Middle of the road doco. You get the info you need but it's not presented in a totally engaging way and wraps up very quickly
Middle of the road doco. You get the info you need but it's not presented in a totally engaging way and wraps up very quickly
Jeffrey
7.0★ · 01/28/23
Their S-1 for the IPO 😂😭😂😭
Their S-1 for the IPO 😂😭😂😭
Hayls
2.0★ · 04/23/22
can’t imagine why anyone would have ever wanted to work in one of these spaces but that might just be because i fucking hate people
can’t imagine why anyone would have ever wanted to work in one of these spaces but that might just be because i fucking hate people
LeonDeon
6.0★ · 06/12/21
I’m convinced that Adam Neumann is a highly evil individual.
WeWork’s concept of working together under a capitalist community wherein we exchange ideas for the betterment of the human race sure seems like an idea that couldn’t go wrong at any point. Let alone that Adam would lie about the growth of his company. WeWork’s failure shouldn’t be a surprise as the documentary follows the meteoric rise of a false prophet and his shortcomings along the way. As a narrative, we can’t help but be entranced by Adam’s story since his personality is larger than the lies he ptyalizes. The biggest takeaway from this was that all you need is a decent haircut, a lot of bullshit, and a god-complex to be king of New York for a bit. Also, if you needed another example of how shitty capitalism is as an economic system, remember that Adam Neumann got a 1.4 billion dollar bailout for running this company into the ground. More money than any of us will ever see in our lifetime.
WeWork’s concept of working together under a capitalist community wherein we exchange ideas for the betterment of the human race sure seems like an idea that couldn’t go wrong at any point. Let alone that Adam would lie about the growth of his company. WeWork’s failure shouldn’t be a surprise as the documentary follows the meteoric rise of a false prophet and his shortcomings along the way. As a narrative, we can’t help but be entranced by Adam’s story since his personality is larger than the lies he ptyalizes. The biggest takeaway from this was that all you need is a decent haircut, a lot of bullshit, and a god-complex to be king of New York for a bit. Also, if you needed another example of how shitty capitalism is as an economic system, remember that Adam Neumann got a 1.4 billion dollar bailout for running this company into the ground. More money than any of us will ever see in our lifetime.
I’m convinced that Adam Neumann is a highly evil individual.
WeWork’s concept of working together under a capitalist community wherein we exchange ideas for the betterment of the human race sure seems like an idea that couldn’t go wrong at any point. Let alone that Adam would lie about the growth of his company. WeWork’s failure shouldn’t be a surprise as the documentary follows the meteoric rise of a false prophet and his shortcomings along the way. As a narrative, we can’t help but be entranced by Adam’s story since his personality is larger than the lies he ptyalizes. The biggest takeaway from this was that all you need is a decent haircut, a lot of bullshit, and a god-complex to be king of New York for a bit. Also, if you needed another example of how shitty capitalism is as an economic system, remember that Adam Neumann got a 1.4 billion dollar bailout for running this company into the ground. More money than any of us will ever see in our lifetime.
WeWork’s concept of working together under a capitalist community wherein we exchange ideas for the betterment of the human race sure seems like an idea that couldn’t go wrong at any point. Let alone that Adam would lie about the growth of his company. WeWork’s failure shouldn’t be a surprise as the documentary follows the meteoric rise of a false prophet and his shortcomings along the way. As a narrative, we can’t help but be entranced by Adam’s story since his personality is larger than the lies he ptyalizes. The biggest takeaway from this was that all you need is a decent haircut, a lot of bullshit, and a god-complex to be king of New York for a bit. Also, if you needed another example of how shitty capitalism is as an economic system, remember that Adam Neumann got a 1.4 billion dollar bailout for running this company into the ground. More money than any of us will ever see in our lifetime.
Tim LangfordPRO
5.6★ · 05/14/21
“Some mind trick has been played on a lot of us” - actual quote from a WeWork employee, reeling from the realization that their cravenly ambitious boss (an obvious charlatan) actually didn’t care about anyone but himself, and that no, they weren’t actually a “family”.
This was 90% “making” and about 10% “breaking”. I guess that’s what happens when a business collapses overnight, but it doesn’t make for the most engaging doc. I’m here for the painful, slow-motion collapse - the panicked presentations, the juicy denial, the walls-closing-in feeling. If you’re going to run a scam, you’ve got to be considerate of the eventual doc, I mean c’mon.
This was 90% “making” and about 10% “breaking”. I guess that’s what happens when a business collapses overnight, but it doesn’t make for the most engaging doc. I’m here for the painful, slow-motion collapse - the panicked presentations, the juicy denial, the walls-closing-in feeling. If you’re going to run a scam, you’ve got to be considerate of the eventual doc, I mean c’mon.
“Some mind trick has been played on a lot of us” - actual quote from a WeWork employee, reeling from the realization that their cravenly ambitious boss (an obvious charlatan) actually didn’t care about anyone but himself, and that no, they weren’t actually a “family”.
This was 90% “making” and about 10% “breaking”. I guess that’s what happens when a business collapses overnight, but it doesn’t make for the most engaging doc. I’m here for the painful, slow-motion collapse - the panicked presentations, the juicy denial, the walls-closing-in feeling. If you’re going to run a scam, you’ve got to be considerate of the eventual doc, I mean c’mon.
This was 90% “making” and about 10% “breaking”. I guess that’s what happens when a business collapses overnight, but it doesn’t make for the most engaging doc. I’m here for the painful, slow-motion collapse - the panicked presentations, the juicy denial, the walls-closing-in feeling. If you’re going to run a scam, you’ve got to be considerate of the eventual doc, I mean c’mon.