**The Sunday Times Best Business Book of the Year 2020** 'A satisfying ticktock of the
company's rapid rise and crash culminating in its disastrous I.P.O. in 2019 and Neumann's
ouster.' New York Times 'This absorbing book exposes the sheer madness of WeWork: not just its
founder Adam Neumann's extreme hubris but why so many wiser minds bought into the fairytale.'
Sunday Times The inside story of the rise and fall of WeWork showing how the excesses of its
founder shaped a corporate culture unlike any other.__________ In its earliest days WeWork
promised the impossible: to make the workplace cool. Adam Neumann an immigrant determined to
make his fortune in the United States landed on the idea of repurposing surplus New York
office space for the burgeoning freelance class. Over the course of ten years WeWork attracted
billions of dollars from some of the most sought-after investors in the world while spending
it to build a global real estate empire. Based on more than two hundred interviews Billion
Dollar Loser chronicles the breakneck speed at which WeWork's CEO built and grew his company.
Culminating in a day-by-day account of the five weeks leading up to WeWork's botched IPO and
Neumann's dramatic ouster Reeves Wiedeman exposes the story of the company's desperate attempt
to secure the funding it needed in the final moments of a decade defined by excess. With
incredible access and piercing insight into the company Billion Dollar Loser tells the full
inside story of WeWork and its CEO Adam Neumann who together came to represent the most
audacious and improbable rise and fall in business. __________ A Sunday Times Best Business
Book of the Year Fortune Best Book of the Year New York Times' Books to Watch For in October
WIRED Books to Read This Fall Bloomberg's Nonfiction Title to Know this Fall Newsweek's Must
Read Fall Nonfiction Publishers Weekly Top Ten for Business & Economics InsideHook's Best Books
for October Like John Carreyrou's Bad Blood and Mike Isaac's Super Pumped before it Billion
Dollar Loser traces the turmoil at a startup driven by a charismatic arrogant founder. '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.' WIRED
