The Cult of We - by Eliot Brown & Maureen Farrell (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The ... inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what its epic unraveling says about a financial system drunk on the elixir of Silicon Valley innovation--from the Wall Street Journal correspondents whose scoop-filled reporting hastened the company's downfall"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>WALL STREET JOURNAL </i>BESTSELLER - "The riveting, definitive account of WeWork, one of the wildest business stories of our time."--Matt Levine, Money Stuff columnist, Bloomberg Opinion <p/>The inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what its epic unraveling says about a financial system drunk on the elixir of Silicon Valley innovation--from the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> correspondents (recently featured in the WeWork Hulu documentary) whose scoop-filled reporting hastened the company's downfall.</b> <p/><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD</b> <p/>WeWork would be worth $10 trillion, more than any other company in the world. It wasn't just an office space provider. It was a tech company--an AI startup, even. Its WeGrow schools and WeLive residences would revolutionize education and housing. One day, mused founder Adam Neumann, a Middle East peace accord would be signed in a WeWork. The company might help colonize Mars. And Neumann would become the world's first trillionaire. <p/>This was the vision of Neumann and his primary cheerleader, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son. In hindsight, their ambition for the company, whose primary business was subletting desks in slickly designed offices, seems like madness. Why did so many intelligent people--from venture capitalists to Wall Street elite--fall for the hype? And how did WeWork go so wrong? <p/>In little more than a decade, Neumann transformed himself from a struggling baby clothes salesman into the charismatic, hard-partying CEO of a company worth $47 billion--on paper. With his long hair and feel-good mantras, the six-foot-five Israeli transplant looked the part of a messianic truth teller. Investors swooned, and billions poured in. <p/>Neumann dined with the CEOs of JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, entertaining a parade of power brokers desperate to get a slice of what he was selling: the country's most valuable startup, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and a generation-defining moment. <p/>Soon, however, WeWork was burning through cash faster than Neumann could bring it in. From his private jet, sometimes clouded with marijuana smoke, he scoured the globe for more capital. Then, as WeWork readied a Hail Mary IPO, it all fell apart. Nearly $40 billion of value vaporized in one of corporate America's most spectacular meltdowns. <p/>Peppered with eye-popping, never-before-reported details, <i>The Cult of We</i> is the gripping story of careless and often absurd people--and the financial system they have made.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"If I had to make a list of top five business books of all time, this would be on it. It's just so damn engrossing."<b>--Christopher Mims, <i>Wall Street Journal</i> tech columnist</b> <p/>"A juicy guided tour through the highly leveraged, not-quite-rags-to-billion-dollar-parachute saga of WeWork and its cofounder Adam Neumann . . . Brown and Farrell show an agility for explaining key business dynamics. . . . It's also very funny."<b>--<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/>"Absorbing . . . <i>The Cult of We</i> is both a ticktock of Neumann's self-immolation and a primer on the ways and mores of a start-up culture populated by visionaries, grifters and moneymen. . . . Like <i>Bad Blood</i> . . . <i>The Cult of We</i> is novelistic in detail and often thrilling. . . . It's like watching a car careening toward a wall at 90 miles an hour." <b>--Allison Stewart, <i>The Washington Post</i></b> <p/>"Deeply reported and compellingly written."<b>--<i>Harvard Business Review</i></b> <p/>"Only a handful of books capture the zeitgeist of a business era. Add this one, a wild saga that caps a decade when founder-worshipping investors threw billions at well-spun visions--even those of a megalomaniac whose new-age real estate enterprise's losses piled up as fast as its valuation climbed. The duo who broke the story of WeWork's rise and fall have now artfully fleshed it out in a book whose colorful narrative is undergirded by deep context about the times, and enablers, that made Adam Neumann possible."<b>--John Helyar, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling co-author of <i>Barbarians at the Gate</i></b> <p/>"<i>The Emperor's New Clothes</i> of the Silicon Valley age."<b>--<i>The Real Deal<br></i></b><br>"Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell owned the WeWork story as it was unfolding. And now, with <i>The Cult of We, </i> we finally get the chronicle we deserve of a madness that consumed venture capital, corporate America, and the world."<b>--Charles Duhigg, <b><i>New York Times</i> bestselling</b> author of <i>The Power of Habit</i></b> <p/>"The lines between vision, bullshit, and fraud are narrow, and if you tell a thirty-year-old male that he is Jesus Christ, he's inclined to believe you. The idolatry of founders in Silicon Valley will rage until the music stops playing. <i>The Cult of We</i> is a cautionary tale and a crisp page-turner."<b>--Scott Galloway, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Four</i> and professor of marketing at NYU Stern School of Business</b> <p/> "Whether you know a lot or a little about the fall of WeWork, you won't be able to put down <i>The Cult of We</i> by <i>Wall Street Journal</i> reporters Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell. Their book is teeming with incredible details. While heroes are in short supply, the schadenfreude you'll feel about the spectacular downfall of those who deserve it is delightful."<b>--Bethany McLean, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling co-author of <i>The Smartest Guys in the Room</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Eliot Brown</b> covers startups and venture capital for <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>. He joined the <i>Journal</i> in 2010 to cover real estate, and previously worked at <i>The New York Observer</i>. He lives in San Francisco. <p/><b>Maureen Farrell</b> covers initial public offerings for <i>The Wall Street Journal, </i> where she has been on staff since 2013. She previously worked at CNN, <i>Forbes, </i> Debtwire, and Mergermarket. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.
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