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WeWork

6 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 6, 2023 by Adam Neumann · said 25 times in 7 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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brought up most by David Ulevitch (6), Marc Andreessen (4), Ben Horowitz (4), Adam Neumann (4), Augusto Marietti (1), Alex Rampell (1), Alex Bouaziz (1)

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Everything said about WeWork, oldest first

Feb 6, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Neumann: Google's corporate campus was the original inspiration for WeWork
“Google was inspiration for us that we work. Our point was, well, why can't small businesses have this great campus, have this great energy?”
Adam Neumann Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 25:18 Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
Jun 12, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Horowitz: a16z complements Adam Neumann by filtering ideas and building tech teams
“The things he wasn't good at WeWork, like we're very good at putting together a tech team, you know, understanding which of the six ideas are good and which ones we should probably wait on or not do, and that kind of thing. Like that's the, you know, that's th…”
Ben Horowitz Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 49:39 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jun 12, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Horowitz: WeWork scaled relying on brand equity without software infrastructure
“We work got to where it got with no such technological platform, just the brand.”
Ben Horowitz Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 58:59 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jun 12, 2025
Insight
Andreessen: Founders in public crises temporarily believe their negative press
“He goes, you know, the stage when you forgot everything you did and believe everything that was written about you. It's a stage. It will pass.”
Adam Neumann Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 0:12 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jun 12, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Neumann: Post-WeWork social circle plummeted from 1,000 friends to 10
“I had a thousand friends a week before. And I went down to 10. And five of them were family members.”
Adam Neumann Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 29:56 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jun 12, 2025
Disclosure
Neumann says he did zero diligence on early WeWork investors
“And the answer was actually none. For my first investors. They came to me. I didn't know anything. I didn't know any better.”
Adam Neumann Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 38:00 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
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