i'd rather have $700m cash tho
WSJ: WeWork: A $20 Billion Startup Fueled by Silicon Valley Pixie Dust; CEO OUSTED REMAINS CHAIRMAN
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ADevilYouKhow
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Wait until he gets that federal scrutiny
Crazy.
One - it's crazy to read the Coli these days and see articles and threads about people you know. Like - what the hell life have I been living (and why am I not rich
jk - good life.)
But anyway - I met Adam a few times and partied with him and hooped with him and everything.
I don't know all the details of this case but I did use to think that WeWork was spreading itself thin with ideas that I never really saw materialize but were heavily worked on. I remember seeing the "secret" plans for WeLive, and if I am not mistaken that is still not a thing right?
Man...I got to see first hand what a good idea, rapid growth but no real vision or strategy outside of put money into this will do. Wow.
One - it's crazy to read the Coli these days and see articles and threads about people you know. Like - what the hell life have I been living (and why am I not rich
jk - good life.)But anyway - I met Adam a few times and partied with him and hooped with him and everything.
I don't know all the details of this case but I did use to think that WeWork was spreading itself thin with ideas that I never really saw materialize but were heavily worked on. I remember seeing the "secret" plans for WeLive, and if I am not mistaken that is still not a thing right?
Man...I got to see first hand what a good idea, rapid growth but no real vision or strategy outside of put money into this will do. Wow.
GnauzBookOfRhymes
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breh, the SEC under trump doesn't give one fuk about corporate malfeasance...white collar prosecution is at its lowest in decades
GnauzBookOfRhymes
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If I were Adam I'd consider it a smashing success
He may not be the next Facebook or Amazon, but he's cashed out close to $1 billion dollars
Spent tens of millions buying up dope pads in NYC, San Francisco etc
Spending tens of millions investing in startups
Worldwide name recognition (no such thing as bad publicity)
He will lay very low for the next 2 years, then I guarantee he will be back with some other new splashy idea
He'll hire a firm to get him booked for a few interviews and reframe the narrative from the skuzzy fraud who was charging his own company millions of dollars to license the use of its name and cashing out right before an IPO he had reason to know would fail, to the former bad boy turned somber and apologetic prodigal son, who once you really think about it shouldn't be blamed for being so "hard charging/ruthlessly ambitious" b/c it's really SOCIETY'S fault that he did the things he did
...he'll donate a couple million dollars to an inner city charity and take lots of pictures with Black kids...LOTS....I mean so many that some of the more conspiratorially minded will start claiming that he's really part of an international child trafficking ring, and that WeWork was actually a front to launder the proceeds and hide/imprison the victimsWtf do you do to be in his friend circle?Crazy.
One - it's crazy to read the Coli these days and see articles and threads about people you know. Like - what the hell life have I been living (and why am I not rich
But anyway - I met Adam a few times and partied with him and hooped with him and everything.
I don't know all the details of this case but I did use to think that WeWork was spreading itself thin with ideas that I never really saw materialize but were heavily worked on. I remember seeing the "secret" plans for WeLive, and if I am not mistaken that is still not a thing right?
Man...I got to see first hand what a good idea, rapid growth but no real vision or strategy outside of put money into this will do. Wow.
and last I checked the new execs were selling all the auxiliary businesses off
It was very random, like extremely random. I am nothing like what you would expect to be around these guys, but I was and am very creative with what I do for my profession and got a bit of fans in the WeWork space in my city.
So much so, as I Googled my name + Wework after reading this thread and found a few articles with my name in it regarding Wework back in 2014-16ish...Delta Airlines mag, WeWork articles, Forbes, etc.
Anyhow, I was invited to one of those big camp events that were written about, and I wasn't going to go, but Wework paid my way.
I was there with about 1000 other people, but long story short, I bumped into the CFO who was like let's do a shot, they walked me over to Nuemann and his investor (the CEO of COACH) and some other people, we did shots, then they wanted to hoop. Nuemann is like 6'6 so he is pretty decent, and then we all hit it off, and they wanted to hang with me the entire time.
A lot of time, when you don't know people that everyone else are trying to touch and be near, you are more natural around those people, and they take notice. I didn't know him or even the performing artists from a can of paint, so I was barely in tune (outside of mad people staring at us) - so we all just kicked it. And, I was young & black, and people love our energy, esp if you are either c00ning OR you are being yourself and non-apologetic about it (I was obviously not c00ning, I don't come from that background to have that in me)
After that, I would come up to the NYC offices and check em out, work from there, go to some of the parties they would have downtown (CRAZY LIT), but I got bored fast - that's not my lane. I look like a party animal but I am a worker, and I don't have time to play around...but again, I did meet a lot of people and learned a lot of the inner workings of what are written in the articles.
ogc163
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This is one area where I strongly disagree with Galloway, the feds ain't gonna do shyt to Adam and to a bunch of other clowns in tech.