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> this feels a little like the WeWork CEO flying couches to offices in private jets Fascinating! I unearthed the TL;DR for anyone else interested: * WeWork p
by bigwheels 11mo ago
> this feels a little like the WeWork CEO flying couches to offices in private jets
Fascinating! I unearthed the TL;DR for anyone else interested:
* WeWork purchased a $60 million Gulfstream G650ER private jet for Neumann's use.
* The G650ER was customized with two bedrooms and a conference table.
* Neumann used the jet extensively for global travel, meetings, and family trips.
* The jet was also used to transport items like a "sizable chunk" of marijuana in a cereal box, which might be worse and more negligent than couches.
Sources:
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/03/adam-neumann-rebekah-real-life-stories https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/03/adam-neumann-re...
https://nypost.com/2021/07/17/the-shocking-ways-weworks-ex-ceo-adam-neumann-treated-staff/ https://nypost.com/2021/07/17/the-shocking-ways-weworks-ex-c...
- guywithahat 11mo agoThe couch fascinate me the most because it's almost justifiable. Like offices need furniture and grand openings should be nice; however the cost could never be recovered and the company was way too big to be doing things that don't scale. In a similar vein, LLM's/AI are clearly impressive technologies that can be done profitably. Spending billions on a model however may not be economically feasible. It's a great example of runaway spending, whereas the weed thing feels more along the lines of a drug problem to me.