I am a subscriber to Wondery. I have been very impressed with the podcasts I have listened to so far. This story is NO exception!! It’s brilliant! The host and narrator keeps the audience engaged and his pace is perfect. I could not wait to listen to all the episodes. The story is shocking and intriguing. I loved this podcast. 5 stars!

There is an interesting story about the excesses of “Founders” such as Adam Neumann (the subject of this podcast) somewhere within the discussion of this podcast, but this show is lighter on details than I would like. This show focuses on the superficial things while ignoring the more insidious nature underneath. There is a good story that wasn’t told in this whole saga, and I feel sadness that it wasn’t told.

It’s a great story, the content is great, but each episode is listed at about 30 minutes. I am listening ad-free. The first 5 minutes or so is a weird intro that touches on what will be in the episode, then the episode starts at about the 5 minute mark. Then it is 20 minutes of fleshing out the 5 minute intro. It just feels like they tried to make it longer by repeating. This thing should be 2 episodes, each 1 hour long. Please, Wondery, I am paying for your content. Please respect my time.

Nothing but ads. And the host sounds like Casey Kasem.

The production and narration on this are perfect. The format is not. After you take out the ads, intros, theme music and credits, episodes are like 15 minutes long.

Season 2 episode 3…as a reporter aren’t it supposed to keep you’re biased out. Kept referencing Trump and your feelings on it even though Trump has nothing to do with this podcast.

The episode where he implies it’s misogyny that adam is “going to Coachella” and Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison is obnoxious. Especially because the second before she Lied to her investors and he didn’t. Hence legality. Also not for nothing she was behind diagnosing diseases and lying to the public about the ability to diagnose cancer ! A lot of it is a stretch and the journalist integrity, well 🙄good tv show though

It’s the commercials that put a wrench in this companion piece and the Directors Cut, how many times can we hear about blue chip art investment????

While wonderfully produced, the reporting lacks depth, reading almost like a teenage drama. Interviews are highly edited and cut extremely short. This is a very surface level retelling. I was able to listen free as an audible member (in the audible app). I would be sorely disappointed had I subscribed to Wonderly for essentially a children’s book. Not worth the money, in my opinion.

I thoroughly enjoyed this series, compliments to the producers, show runners, and everyone else involved.

not a fan of this ‘’director cut”

I love Business Wars and this was great with so many details. Looking forward to the new show with Jared Leto on this story.

I love business wars, so this was an obvious love for me. Thank you David Brown for always delivering fascinating and detailed content.

Sometimes I just want to know what happened without a dozen drawn out super detailed episodes. This worked, with the benefit of a professional broadcaster.

Very little substance here, and seems factory made, The narrator has a condescending and grating nature. It's sort of like a cliff notes version of the stories we already know. Adam Neumann was a fascinating CEO, but you'd never know it by listening to this.

I’m a true crime nut but love Wondery so I tried this one out (also thanks to Things I Bought and Liked on Instagram sharing it). It was just as interesting as any true crime story and helped see another side of a Ponzi scheme. Instead of just the narcissism and greed of Madoff, this showed how an org can be fun and community building and a great startup but still have those horrible practices.

We are the generation that shows the end result, without the steps involved to get there. I’ve been a purveyor of failure and success. The “fake it until you make it” mindset only gets people so far. Money is great but HOW you get the money and WHAT you do with it is the true success...or the curse. I think we wil see a lot of both for the next decade. I hope we learn great lessons along the way.

Another ‘fake it til you make it’ story like Theranos and Fyre Festival!

This story needs to be a mini series. Enjoyed the commentary of Scott

Well produced podcast and very enjoyable to listen to. Looking forward to more by David Brown. Masa San should get most of the blame for enabling Adam and his over inflated ego and purse.

Really enjoyed

I don’t understand why this podcast was made because the Foundering podcast made on the WeWork story was so many times better, including the narrator . This narrator sounds like a children’s book story teller & it seems like only facts on the WeWork story are covered here. The Foundering podcast gave way more reporting and insight into who Adam Neumann was and why this happened.

Story is interesting but slow at times. Narrator tends to overdo it with his inflections.

As always, this podcast did not disappoint. Have enjoyed all of the Wondery podcasts thus far. Very interesting subject. Whoever produces the theme songs does a great job!!

Keep it up.. Adds are annoying because the story was compelling...

Like all wondery podcasts, it has an excessive amount of ads. However it is worse with this podcast. The episodes are short and ads are as long as the episodes. I wish wondery would consider listener quality instead of money

Thank you so much for the depth insight into WeWork. I only knew bits and pieces about it, so got my eyes opened up to it when I binged-listened to it. Thank you for sharing Scott Galloway’s take on it. I am reminded again that if something appears to be too good to be true, then it’s most likely a fake. Why is it so many of us have the “fear of missing out”?

I normally don’t mind ads but this is a 30 minute podcast that has 10 minutes of useless ads. It definitely seems that revenue was the motivator for the podcast rather than the pursuit of journalism. There are other WeWork podcasts that do a much better job investigating and interviewing.

I love , love , love this podcast! Please hurry and get more episodes out. This so rocks!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Unfortunate to have so many fraudulent businesses like WeWork and Theranos, but a great presentation in this series. Thanks!

I enjoyed listening to this podcast. As someone who had the opportunity to take advantage of WeWork benefits without paying the monthly costs (I’m an online student and the online platform was one of WeWork’s customers; so I guess I did pay for it in a way, but that’s beside the point), it was interesting to see what was real and what was behind rose colored glasses. Not sure I would have found it as interesting if I hadn’t seen the insides of WeWork.

The heck is up with the background music? Distracting.

This is one of my favorite podcasts of all time. Not only is the story intriguing, but the production, narration, and entire suite of creative elements used to supplement the story are what makes it so addicting. It’s clear a lot of creative talent went into this making this podcast, and that’s what I appreciated so much episode after episode. The story is brilliantly weaved, using compelling first-hand accounts to amplify the story, rather than adding them in because that’s what you’re ‘supposed to do.’ It all goes back to the amount of thought and exceptional creativity put into producing the podcast and telling the story of WeWork. Through the right mix of music, sound, voice, plot, twists, and turns, this team managed to put together a piece of art that will captivate your mind, even long after you finish the last episode. It will leave you longing for more!

I really enjoy this series and pick the ones that are of interest to me,rfive stars, very enjoyable !!

This show has good production values and is a solid telling of the WeWork story, including the weird spiritual-ese gobbledygook preached by the company’s founder. It is skeptical without being overly negative. Scott Galloway, who sounded the alarm about WeWork early despite criticism for doing so, emerges as the most interesting/entertaining interviewee. It’s all ultimately a bit forgettable, though.

LOVE IT!!! So brilliantly done!

Informative & intriguing! Loved the theme song

Exciting narrative!!

Annoyingly overproduced, narration very faux-casual, and there’s just not all that much to the story

It was pretty interesting but I felt like it could have been more streamlined

Very interesting. Beware the charismatic leader.

I was excited for this podcast but it has too many commercials..not that much in-depth reporting. You can read the newspaper and get all the information. I was disappointed...

I personally don’t need to get into every detail, if every story was told with every piece of information, there wouldn’t be enough time to go around. Thank you it was just enough to get the concept! Well done!

This podcast is clearly a bandwagon post-WeWork’s IPO, in selecting only commentaries and evidence that speaks to the media and public sentiment of the time, as opposed to a more objective account of the story.

This was really interesting. Was WeWork the most spectacular failure in history? No, but it was fascinating to see how someone with no experience can create a company this large based on charisma alone. Like Elizabeth Holmes, but got caught faster.

It was apparent to me early on that this series was hot garbage, but for you, dear reader, I forced myself to finish the entire series before writing this. You're welcom, it was not worth it. For starters, this is a shallow and heavily biased recanting of something you can easily look up and read in a fraction of the time. Every other 1-2 star review has legitimate complaints. This is so mundane, it's almost a nontroversy compared to the military industrial complex or ExxonMobil in Louisiana or CATCO and their chemical leaks. It almost makes you think that the host and his idiot friend just hate millennials. At least Adam Neumann took the time to sell his investors on an idea before stabbing them in the back. Most professional tycoons and criminals don't even bother to do that. I was not familiar with any of the actors in this, WeWork, the host or his work on Business Wars, Scott Galloway, etc., and coming away from this shallow effort on cashing in on Millennial hate and sensationalism, I have only really learned a few things: 1) WeWork is another Millennial trash company that scammed its investors and employees. 2) This is nowhere near the worst thing that has ever happened in Corporate America in even the last 20 years. 3) Scott Galloway has either a tiny penis and a hard on for whining about mundane scandals OR he has a tiny penis and lost a ton of money somehow on WeWork and now wants to recoup his investment by getting paid to whine about WeWork like he's somehow Dr. Michael Burry in foreseeing "the fAll oF wEWoRk". Scott Galloway is some creep that's worse than the host and easily the worst part of this garbage podcast. 4) This host is an idiot who's scam of getting ppl to listen to this filler nonsense rivals that of Adam Neumann.

Masayoshi “son”? Lol it’s san. It is an honorable for mister in Japan. Including it in his name is like saying mister mister. Also using It after his first name doesn’t make sense unless you want to sound like kindergartner calling him uncle bob. Lol. Look if this was some teen making a selfie vid on Tik Tok I’d cut you a break but isn’t this suppose to be researched and written by pro reporters?

Good start, great concept. I would like to see more in-depth investigatory research and perhaps expanding to double the amount of episodes. Would love to hear episodes on Enron, Countrywide Loans, etc. Keep up the great work, the options are endless...

I liked it. I wasn’t familiar with WeWork, so I found it very interesting.

I say surprising because I see WeWork buildings all the time & would’ve never known they had any problems. I learned a lot & it was a well told story. Sometimes I found myself zoned out maybe because the host isn’t super “fun” to listen to, to me.