Long before WeWork became the most theatrical implosion of a multibillion-dollar stock offering in recent memory, founder Adam Neumann lived on a kibbutz. As WeWork grew, he waxed poetic about the spirit of community he had found there and how the company would shape that vision into a “kibbutz 2.0.”
In the first episode of our new podcast Foundering, we talk to residents of Kibbutz Nir Am who remember Neumann. And we trace the arc of the entrepreneur’s early life, as he started business after business until one finally clicked. https://bloom.bg/2YwyAYa
We also speak to Joanna Strange — the first insider to speak out about the company’s shaky finances back in 2016, when criticism of WeWork was rare. She now says the ordeal — which included questioning from the FBI — nearly broke her. https://bloom.bg/31fGHdm
👂To hear the full WeWork story, subscribe to Foundering here: https://bloom.bg/2B33ui1
In the first episode of our new podcast Foundering, we talk to residents of Kibbutz Nir Am who remember Neumann. And we trace the arc of the entrepreneur’s early life, as he started business after business until one finally clicked. https://bloom.bg/2YwyAYa
We also speak to Joanna Strange — the first insider to speak out about the company’s shaky finances back in 2016, when criticism of WeWork was rare. She now says the ordeal — which included questioning from the FBI — nearly broke her. https://bloom.bg/31fGHdm
👂To hear the full WeWork story, subscribe to Foundering here: https://bloom.bg/2B33ui1