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WeWork cofounder demanded employees be fired because she disliked their 'energy'
- kjs3 7y agoWeWork is the Goop of tech companies.
- rdtwo 7y agoWe work is totally a tech company and totally not a cult.
- JBReefer 7y agoCults usually make money, though. This seems more like a cult-flavored scam.
- anm89 7y agoTbh most tech startups I've worked at have done tons of stuff at all hands style meetings that came off as cultish and just very cringey. I would say there isn't anything here that makes wework an outlier in terms of cultishness. It's just a tech startup flavored scam in my opinion.
- wmeredith 7y agoPretty sure Neumann is making out like a bandit.
- fuzz4lyfe 7y ago"The Journal further characterized the Neumanns as "impulsive at times," reporting that Adam Neumann was "bemoaning the number of 'B' players hired amid rapid growth" and consequently ordered his staff to fire 20% of the company's workers annually." Adam Neumann the CEO selling dollar bills for fifty cents and hoping to make it up in volume is talking about B players. That's rich.
- klyrs 7y ago> The We Company originally involved Rebekah Neumann in the company's succession planning when it released its IPO filing in August, but investor pushback led the company to remove her from succession planning and bar her from serving on the board. Sounds like somebody disliked her energy.
- greenyoda 7y agoDiscussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21007326 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21007326
- kbos87 7y agoOh my god, talk about bad energy. I don’t think I’ve seen a purer example of inept “leadership”. This sounds like a human and a company to stay away from.