The Spectacular Rise and Fall of WeWork

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Published 2024-06-18
Correspondent Seb Walker examines the spectacular rise and fall of WeWork, and delves into the world of venture capitalists willing to gamble billions on the next big startup.

This segment is from the show ‘VICE’ and originally aired in April 2020. Since then, WeWork declared bankruptcy and former CEO Adam Neumann has attempted to buy the company he was ousted from.

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All Comments (21)
  • @swedesam
    Cult leaders and gurus all have great talent at salesmanship.
  • @RickR69
    Vice should do one on the spectacular rise and fall of Vice.
  • @MrPacosTacoz
    Why is vice posting a 4 year old Bloomberg original?
  • Every clip of him talking gives off intense conman vibes, do people on Wall Street just not have this instinct?
  • @bravethomasyt
    "Make the world a better place" by essentially sub-letting office space. What a joke :D
  • @ilirlluka6789
    Omg "we all have superpowers, you have a superpower, and you have a superpower, and you have a superpower", that is so so cringe my spine is strangling the back of my stomach. Every time I hear that expression I am reminded of the emptiness behind the eyes of all CEOs and tech entrepreneurs.
  • @GarryBenson1
    You work for 42yrs to have $2m in your retirement, Meanwhile some people are putting just $20k in a meme coin for just few months and now they are multi millionaires. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life
  • @1989Nihil
    WeWork is proof that not all investors are smart. Who the hell looked at WeWork's pitch of leasing property and then renting said leased property out to other companies, and thought this would be a money making machine? Also, since when it renting out office space con furniture a groundbreakingly new business model?
  • @hagakuru
    Comes off as borderline being a cult with employees being cult members pushing the agenda of their messiah.
  • @Grimmtht
    Very strange/inappropriate you were required as an employee to attend an alcohol fulled cochella festival.
  • @Rippypoo
    I watched this whole video, and never heard what WeWork's PRODUCT was. This is one of the reasons why this world is in such an economic mess.
  • I used to work at VICE FRANCE inside a wework office in Paris - they had to change their "free beer everyday" policy for "only on fridays" - we were savages
  • Kudos to Vice for having the cojones to use the exact same title as a Bloomberg video
  • @TomNook.
    Focus on the investors, how can such a shady guy keep getting so much funding?
  • @charmedkitten
    The moment he started speaking, it gave Fyre Festival vibes. Also, is this what Entertainment 720 was supposed to be on Parks N Rec😆
  • @Irnbruist
    why exactly do I need another middle man who takes profits away from my lease? It‘s a solution for no problem..
  • @TrapSection
    This is only the 99th documentary on wework lol
  • @TomCook1993
    12:55 for those of you that are still confused about what Adam did it’s basically like this; your parents give you $10 to open a lemonade stand. That money is so you can buy lemons and sugar. But instead of doing that, you buy play-doh so you can play with it. That’s called defrauding investors. Your parents gave you that money expecting you to spend it on the things you needed to open a lemonade stand.
  • Would love to see a part 2 since WeWork is still thriving in Europe and everyone here wants to understand why!