Adam Neumann is now a billionaire. In the meritocratic, rational-markets mythology of how many people believe the system works, you're only supposed to get a bi

Adam Neumann is now a billionaire. In the meritocratic, rational-markets mythology of how many people believe the system works, you're only supposed to get a billion dollars if you create value for a lot of people. After 18.5 billion dollars of investment, thanks to Adam Neumann's leadership, WeWork is now worth 8 billion dollars. So rather than creating value, he actually destroyed a shitload of it. And now he's richer than you or I will ever be. You're also ignoring one group of victims here. I wonder how the current and former employees of WeWork would feel about your assessment that it's "not so bad"? Their labor was no doubt compensated largely in the form of now-worthless equity grants. "Sorry you got screwed but this is necessary for the health of the investor class. Won't somebody please think of the investor class?!" How totally fucking odious. I don't know how you look at WeWork and arrive at the conclusion that professional investors are at risk of becoming too conservative. Clearly, venture capital has stopped functioning with any sort of discipline or rationality if it can invest in companies like WeWork and Theranos which later turn out to be obvious mirages of pure ineptitude and greed.