WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn
Mar 17 2021
•2h 44m
•Documentary
Explore the rise and fall of one of the biggest corporate flameouts and venture capitalist bubbles in recent years – the story of WeWork, and its hippie-messianic leader Adam Neumann.
Cast
See allAdam Neumann
Self (archive footage)
Rebekah Paltrow Neumann
Self (archive footage)
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