EPISODE · Oct 20, 2020 · 3 MIN
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork by Reeves Wiedeman
from Access Essential Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Business · host Wilfrid Hegmann
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork Author: Reeves Wiedeman Narrator: Will Collyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 51 minutes Release date: October 20, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.87 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller: This "vivid" inside story of WeWork and its CEO tells the remarkable saga of one of the most audacious, and improbable, rises and falls in American business history (Ken Auletta). Christened a potential savior of Silicon Valley's startup culture, Adam Neumann was set to take WeWork, his office share company disrupting the commercial real estate market, public, cash out on the company's forty-seven billion dollar valuation, and break the string of major startups unable to deliver to shareholders. But as employees knew, and investors soon found out, WeWork's capital was built on promises that the company was more than a real estate purveyor, that in fact it was a transformational technology company. Veteran journalist Reeves Weideman dives deep into WeWork and it CEO's astronomical rise, from the marijuana and tequila-filled board rooms to cult-like company summer camps and consciousness-raising with Anthony Kiedis. Billion Dollar Loser is a character-driven business narrative that captures, through the fascinating psyche of a billionaire founder and his wife and co-founder, the slippery state of global capitalism. A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller “Vivid, carefully reported drama that readers will gulp down as if it were a fast-paced novel” (Ken Auletta)
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454292 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork Author: Reeves Wiedeman Narrator: Will Collyer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 51 minutes Release date: October 20, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.87 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 2.67 of Total 3 Genres: Business Publisher's Summary: A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller: This "vivid" inside story of WeWork and its CEO tells the remarkable saga of one of the most audacious, and improbable, rises and falls in American business history (Ken Auletta). Christened a potential savior of Silicon Valley's startup culture, Adam Neumann was set to take WeWork, his office share company disrupting the commercial real estate market, public, cash out on the company's forty-seven billion dollar valuation, and break the string of major startups unable to deliver to shareholders. But as employees knew, and investors soon found out, WeWork's capital was built on promises that the company was more than a real estate purveyor, that in fact it was a transformational technology company. Veteran journalist Reeves Weideman dives deep into WeWork and it CEO's astronomical rise, from the marijuana and tequila-filled board rooms to cult-like company summer camps and consciousness-raising with Anthony Kiedis. Billion Dollar Loser is a character-driven business narrative that captures, through the fascinating psyche of a billionaire founder and his wife and co-founder, the slippery state of global capitalism. A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller “Vivid, carefully reported drama that readers will gulp down as if it were a fast-paced novel” (Ken Auletta)
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