Reeves Wiedeman is a contributing editor at New York magazine, and has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Harper's, and other publications.
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"A rollicking Hyperloop of a ride."--San Francisco Chronicle
"Billion Dollar Loser would be absorbing enough if it were just one
man's grandiosity, but Wiedeman has a larger argument to make about
what Neumann represents."--Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
"An impressively reported and fast-moving tale of Neumann and
WeWork's co-working house of cards...Wiedeman does a wonderful job
uncovering the strange, surreal details that reveal what it was
like to be in Neumann's orbit."--Pitchbook
"Wiedeman's finest feat of reporting and double portraiture is his
evocation of Neumann's relationship with his financial savior (for
a time) Masayoshi Son. . . to delve any further into their
relationship would be to give away the plot of "Billion Dollar
Loser," which, like the most engrossing nonfiction stories, has a
plot indeed, one that only reality could contrive."
--New York Times Book Review, Editors Choice
"When life transcends art, tell it straight. That's what Reeves
Wiedeman, a New York contributing editor since 2016, has done with
Billion Dollar Loser, the propulsive tale of WeWork's, and
Neumann's, rise and fall."--The Atlantic
"A frisky dissection of how a rickety real-estate leasing company
tricked the world into seeing it as an immensely valuable,
society-shifting tech unicorn....Wiedeman arranges the absurd
details of their high lives in the C-suite into a pointillist
portrait of wild hubris. "--Wired
"In the distant future, when historians recall the geyser of cash
that banks and venture capitalists directed to Silicon Valley, they
will almost certainly use the catastrophic collapse of WeWork as a
cautionary tale." --Bloomberg
"Move over Theranos, there's a new fallen unicorn in town. Wiedeman
deftly takes us inside the much-hyped WeWork and its once venerated
founder to find out what really happened--and what really went
wrong."--Newsweek
"Wiedeman debuts with a thrilling page-turner. . . . What lifts
this book to excellence is Wiedeman's ease at presenting a complex
business saga both understandably and entertainingly. Readers will
feel like they are in the room with Neumann and his beleaguered
colleagues during every twist and turn of this fascinating
corporate train wreck."--Publishers Weekly, Starred review
"A swift, tragicomic saga of idealism, avarice, and unfettered
ambition--as illuminating about WeWork as the past decade of
venture-funded grandiosity, and an excellent case study in the
power of branding. Reeves Wiedeman has a talent for the artfully
deployed, jaw-dropping detail; there seems to be one on every page.
Reading this book gave me the sensation of visiting a Potemkin
village after a storm: wires dangling, trompe l'oeil flats at a
tilt. Batshit, unsettling, and wholly satisfying."--Anna Wiener,
author of Uncanny Valley
"Adam Neumann thought he was the next Steve Jobs. In a vivid,
carefully reported drama that readers will gulp down as if it were
a fast-paced novel, Reeves Wiedeman follows the charismatic Neumann
as he climbs to the mountaintop, then falls off, leaving readers to
ponder whether he was a charlatan or a believer, or both, and
ponder what this tale teaches about those who blindly followed
WeWork up the mountain."--Ken Auletta
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