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I love WeWork as a customer now. I joined in Poland and now use it when traveling around the USA. It's great. I used to work at Microsoft and I loved that I c

by breck 4y ago

I love WeWork as a customer now. I joined in Poland and now use it when traveling around the USA. It's great. I used to work at Microsoft and I loved that I could travel around the world and work from offices all over. That was awesome for creativity. Now our startup can do that, thanks to WeWork. I don't know Adam Neumann's story. I do know my own though, and know that when you have success, watch your back, people will come with daggers. I wouldn't judge someone who built something great, for making a billion dollars. You never know what kind of daggers in the back he took. I for one look forward to seeing what he builds next.

nemothekid 4y ago
Any customer will love a company selling a dollar for 50 cents. Neumann made a billion dollars by extracting it from a company that is now worth less than that. I think most of the blame lies with Masayoshi but Neumann was the top conman
hn_throwaway_99 4y ago
> I don't know Adam Neumann's story. I do know my own though, and know that when you have success, watch your back, people will come with daggers. This is such a BS false equivalence. There are plenty of people who built really successful companies who are billionaires whom I greatly admire, e.g. Stripe's founders, Google's founders, etc. I was a huge fan of Musk before he went off the deep-end and became more interested in just being a grade A asshole, liar and bully. Neumann likes to wrap his bargain variety avarice and greed in "changing the world" bullshit, and not all founders do that. For example, Neumann's self-dealing with the "We" trademark took a special level of sociopathic hutzpah. I'm also a client of WeWork, and I like its services. That still doesn't mean it's particularly difficult to build a company with a market cap of $1.10 billion when you are given a total funding of over $22 billion to start with. Neumann literally destroyed $20 billion in value, and for that incredible feat was given a billion dollar payday. I agree most of that blame goes to Softbank, but doesn't mean I can't have incredible distain for Neumann for conning his way the whole time.
stcroixx 4y ago
I look forward to seeing him build some license plates.

by breck 4y ago

nemothekid 4y ago

Any customer will love a company selling a dollar for 50 cents. Neumann made a billion dollars by extracting it from a company that is now worth less than that. I think most of the blame lies with Masayoshi but Neumann was the top conman

hn_throwaway_99 4y ago

> I don't know Adam Neumann's story. I do know my own though, and know that when you have success, watch your back, people will come with daggers. This is such a BS false equivalence. There are plenty of people who built really successful companies who are billionaires whom I greatly admire, e.g. Stripe's founders, Google's founders, etc. I was a huge fan of Musk before he went off the deep-end and became more interested in just being a grade A asshole, liar and bully. Neumann likes to wrap his bargain variety avarice and greed in "changing the world" bullshit, and not all founders do that. For example, Neumann's self-dealing with the "We" trademark took a special level of sociopathic hutzpah. I'm also a client of WeWork, and I like its services. That still doesn't mean it's particularly difficult to build a company with a market cap of $1.10 billion when you are given a total funding of over $22 billion to start with. Neumann literally destroyed $20 billion in value, and for that incredible feat was given a billion dollar payday. I agree most of that blame goes to Softbank, but doesn't mean I can't have incredible distain for Neumann for conning his way the whole time.

stcroixx 4y ago

I look forward to seeing him build some license plates.