The Shocking True Story of WeCrashed 

Definitely worth the re-up on Apple TV

Well, you probably don't like that. I was expecting series that is based on real events, as marketed, but found that it is a series loosly based on real events...First, they present Adam as a dumb person. I went and watched inteviews with him, he's actually brilliant, in fact- everybody who knew him and spoke on him said he's very charismatic, he's described by some as "the greatest salesperson in history" - in the show he's only seen as someone with two digits IQ. No mistakes, he failed as a CEO- he spent too much and in interview with him (easy to find on RU-vid) he explains that he was only focused on revenue and not on profit. He thought that this is what will promise them successful IPO and he was wrong as the market switched from focus on revenue to focus on profitability. So, they made him look like Tommy Wisaue, which he's not. Other than that, many events that are described in the show never happened. Like the meeting were he took a werewolf mask- couldn't find it anywhere. Or the the clients of a coffee shop that he recruited as his first employees - again, no mentioning to that anywhere. Almost all the people around him, aside from the few that are based on real people are from different racial minorities, I don't know where this come from. Guess that it has to do with the new woke laws, according which you must have minimum precentage of "minorities" to be nominated for Emmy.

I’m loving it!

@@TheRosatus Are you aware that documentaries exist and that you could just watch those

I am, watched the whole available episodes in 2 days and can’t wait the next one.

Yeah, I'd be taping or tacking my wristband to the bathroom ceiling the night before as they were setting up, and spending the party day either working on my resume or interviewing.

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Yep! Those summer camp mandatory drink and party weeks would have been death to me. Then again, they wouldn’t have hired me anyway!

As many as there are introverts out there, there are also as many lonely people seeking to have a connection with people.

I'm an extrovert, to a point. I need my alone time, and the idea of working in shared space, which I've done, is my personal hell. I need large periods of alone time to face other people. I was thinking, would you leave Wework for your Wespace? (Shudder) And then go to Weworkout? Would there be an enforced WeAllgarden (community garden)? Ugh. And then We church on Sunday or WeSynagogue on Saturday followed by Webrunch? Starting to sound like the Chinese Communist Party.

Well, he IS a cult leader, after all. We understands the mindset.

I don't know. He (again) overdid the accent.

@@missfreakk1416 I hope you're joking! Cause that's not true, those photos were done in jest! Don't believe the gossip sites, the truth will come out soon.

@@missfreakk1416 I remember seeing he was in it and thinking "this is either a genius bit of casting, or is going to undercut any criticisms they make". Ended up being very much the latter - especially with the summer camp episode, which I came to having just a watched a video about the "Mars Island" event a few years ago (they had yoga too!). Should have just cameo'd in "The Dropout" to present an award to Elizabeth Holmes (and humble-brag that she's "one of the few people who makes [him] feel like a lazy bastard".

Leto is a whackadoo

He ain’t a method actor for nothing. He’s possibly the greatest actor of his generation. For me he’s another Daniel Day Lewis but of course he’s his own man with his own artistry

My company does cleaning services for his home

Doesn’t matter how much money Neumann has or makes in the future, --the guys an asshole. Can’t buy decency……more like WeSuck

I thought their love gave We Crashed a depth that similar series have lacked. (The Dropout, Inventing Anna, etc.- all good, but lacked that redeeming element.)

Their belief in their own jargon blows my mind.

Yes but I felt there something very human about their representation of them. I couldn't hate them in the end. Just smile at how easy it is for *us* to get lost in good intentions sometimes. A lot of the projects seemed nice (to me, who doesn't understand sh* about business) just super overvalued and too self-centered around their own lives. Yes, yes, a bunch of narcissism around those two, i know, but there was something so human, funny, full of life and very dumb. And easy to relate at some level, idk In a weird way a good PR they could use lol (god help us 😂😂😂)

@@CollantCompridoa good take on things. I can honestly say that after watching this again, I have more respect for him than her. I think she was more gluttonous than he was. She lost me with the school. From what I know about the school, mainly from other sources, the school was truly a vanity project with no direction. Children and parents are vulnerable for an educational experience that is quality and unique. She capitalized on that for her own ambition and vanity

@@cindyinnew maybe. Imagine a version of wegrow really accessible to everyone and not so strict... Idk, I'm not a parent or a teacher. Seemed not so bad to me. But I believe it must be easy to fall on that narcissistic spiral when you think you have all the money you want and praise from everywhere. I believe it's Kara Swisher who use say that companies need at least one or two annoying employees who asks the difficult questions and are not afraid to point what could go wrong in your plan. They surrounded themselves with "yes-man"-mam and of course, nothing could go wrong from there until reality hits you in the your face. That's actually very human. Funny and tragic as well...

It's already out btw😅

Anne Hathaway killed it as Rebekah Neumann. I bet Rebekah was so flattered they got effin Anne Hathaway to play her. Probably made all of this worth it lol.

i agree! I dont know how he does it.

He is a younger version of Johnny Depp. Legendary!

One and only Jordan Catalano ❤

i got the heebiejeebies from that too. i would never!!

@Tori Reader i know brainwashing and cults, i was born into a jehovas witness family. its sick..

You don't happen to own a smartphone, do you?

Yes exactly

It was a company that is known for endless parties with drugs and orgies. They would accept a bracelet for more of it and we all know it, also you got fired for not cooperating

Unlimited beer during office hours. Everyone required to be in communal spaces partaking upon the arrival of investors. Wtf were these people from Benchmark and SoftBank thinking? The happy work vibe can only take place if people are actually working, going home at night, having a personal life. This became their world. Yet no higher ups saw the burnout forthcoming? It’s called due diligence and exists for good reason

She is so wonderful! Her character is incredibly obnoxious, so much so that it took real skill to keep it from being satire. She nailed it. Leto brings it, too.

Agree

You are only saying that because you fancy her.

You got that right ...Yup

I'm sorry. When I heard the name Paltrow all I could think about was Gwyneths legs

And vanity, ignorance, entitlement, cluelessness…absolutely horrible people.

Same here. Never heard of We Work at all. I have not heard of this show, but I don’t have Apple Plus so.

Same, all of this was brand new information never heard of it

Wash rinse repeat

He wasnt' defrauding though, even with the toxic environment an all. And he walked out of it with more than a billion dollar, or maybe less but either way 100s of millions of dollar after all of that. The whole thing made it seem like he made a mistake and failed and lost everything, but it's far from it. Also despite everything his business actually works and still is worth over a billion after he left. If he had just listened to the other board members about how to manage the company, it still wouldve kept growing and be really successful. But he's just too ambitious, he probably want to be the richest person in the world and all, and wants to reach there asap, and do what he likes. But you know he's probably that way since the beginning, taking huge gambles in his business decision, where other's would've thought he's crazy and stupid, but he really got there because of it, so you can see why he's so deluded that he's always going to be right. I think if we look at other success story there are also similar stories, you'd hear the part where people dont believe they can make it, that they are crazy. If they make it we call them a genius, but probably they just took a gamble too, even if you say and educated guess and got lucky.

This was absolutely not true crime.

@@holohulolo I agree. However I think covid would have impacted him greatly, as it did so with every office environment

@@zeusmasterson4117 Ask his employees if they think he is a criminal or not.

Sociopaths have the same patterns

Seu 👌

@@TheLevantine Talvez um psicopata reconheça o outro 👌

I just commented something similar. Jared Leto has his own cult in real life

Why do you think Jared Leto is a sociopath?

It’s really not that hard to explain it. It’s a very simple business model. What makes it hard is that they are both ridiculously delusional.

@@nadiabalqis Right, yeah, that's what I'm saying. The Neumanns made it more complicated than it needed to be.

@@tmamone83 i agree with you 👍🏻

@@tmamone83I don't think they made it more complicated, but moreso saw it as more significant than what it was and couldn't (wouldn't) explain in simple form because of it...cause they couldn't see the reality of it, just the romanticized version of it. Delusion is a good word being thrown around about them

Rich kids playing in startups, pretending to "work hard". Noone can work in a noisy crowded fastfood-like open space😂

And also bad ones.

This may be why he did this role so well.

Adam - cult - ception

Both were (and are) absolutely clueless on how to manage a business.

They embody everything about hippie greed.

And they were the complete opposite of being woke as they had no concept of outside, real world problems and issues.

You're welcome!

I worked in one of eBays' R&D centers outside the US, there the culture is having team event every once in a week (they spend a lot of money on these, not like WeWork did but yet much). Much is invested in making you feel that the workplace is kind of family. It wasn't mandatory to attend but your superiors would notice that and take a note if you don't. It felt like enslavement. If I don't own the business or doing something I would like to do anyway, I just want to do my job and spend as much of the rest of the time outside of it.

In 2006, I worked as a waitress at a cafe restaurant owned by one of the richest families in America. The bored housewife opened it to give herself something to do and she hired young, good-looking hipsters and scenesters who liked to party. They would let us get drunk and high off a plethora of drugs at work and the owner loved the drama that ensued there from everyone sleeping around with each other. We could dress however we wanted and us girls were totally fine to show as much skin as we wanted and flirt with the customers. At our employee Christmas party, I got so wasted that I took of my shirt and bra and played laser tag like that in front of everyone, including my rich bosses. Everyone who worked there thought the boss lady was so cool, but I never liked her and always thought her encouragement of this behavior at work was fucked up and that her need to be cool was pathetic. It was a toxic place to work for a raging alcoholic like myself who was working through a lot of mental health issues. I haven’t drank in 6 years now and I know her rich husband eventually put his foot down about how the restaurant was being handled some time after I quit. But it’s crazy that they ever allowed everything that happened there and got away with it because they’re extremely wealthy.

@@supersexysadie Sounds like a strip clud more than a resturant to me...You sound like a strong woman, I admire how you reflect on this without pitty yourself. I'm myself avoiding alcohol for nearly a year now.

@@supersexysadie i am sorry you had to go through with that. That sounds terrifying. I am glad you were able to quit and were able to put your health first.

@@TheRosatus It does sound like a strip club lol, but would you believe the place was basically Panera Bread except we also served alcohol? Our menu consisted mostly of make your own sandwiches and salads and we were very popular place with families on Sundays. They even had a corner with toys for kids to play with. Since I was only 21 at the time, I thought it was fun at first. But I ended up resenting the way our bosses used us for entertainment pretty quickly (I tried to quit a total of 3 times and was talked out of it before quitting for real). One of the waitresses blacked out on Xanax while she was serving food and fell hard in the bar area. Instead of firing her, the bosses played the video of her falling down on every TV screen in the restaurant on repeat for a whole day. I kid you not. They had security cameras set up and they would watch us or have their kids watch us even when they were sitting at home in their mansion.

employee can invest and own stock tho. heck they can even own NFT now

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Good catch. Big difference between $5.9 billion and $5.9 million.

Cousins

@@michellelathon ah, thanks

I agree with you 1,000 percent. In both instances and her cousin is hideous.

Who cares?

Right lol , perfect with Gwen Paltrow ugly cousins lmao

Yes Adam's wife in real life is a butt ugly narcissists!

Lol wtf does socialism have to do with this?

@@coachelly86 lol right? It’s literally the story of multi billion dollar corporation and Wall Street greed- ppl hear the word “share” and think socialism

Coworking spaces.

It was one of these business startup unicorns that leased business office space to up and coming companies. The founder basically convinced a bunch of venture capitalists and angel investors that they were going to become the next Uber and Airbnb. The company eventually got valued at over a billion dollars, but the commercial real estate market began to tank, and the company's properties tanked along with it.

Yeah but he still walked out with millions, I think more than a billion even, after all of this and didn't go to jail. He failed in the sense that he didn't manage to make it to a trillion dollar company, colonizing mars and all that. But if you had a business where youre kicked out of and got a billion dollar from it, would you really call it a failure though?

tesla is going to crash because other ev companies, both luxury and standard are innovating much more quickly than they are

Why would Tesla be on one of these mini series? This series and the dropout highlight products and environments that do not work at all. Tesla is an electric car that does work and run efficiently on a hourly basis…. Yes I am not educated enough to speak on Elon not repaying investors, but the product still works. Could you elaborate how Tesla is the same?

@@herpderpimahurs co working still works.. so it is the same

Their is also a Hulu documentary. I saw that before the American Greed episode.