Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

by Reeves Wiedeman

He began to compare WeWork’s expanding reach to conquering empires of the past, boasting in 2015 that WeWork was undergoing “the fastest physical growth in the history of the world,” with perhaps one exception. “I’m not sure about Roman times,” he said. “There might have been some very high-growth companies there.”

One employee decided she wanted to work at WeWork because the company had the word fuck on its website.

Miguel wasn’t keen on inspirational quotes, but he did have one that he liked: “Work hard and in silence, then let success make the fucking noise.”