WeWork's Co-Founder Breaks His 5-Year Silence (Exclusive)

WeWork's Cofounder, Miguel McKelvey, shares the most vulnerable, insightful and rounded account of WeWork in his first interview since the startup's dramatic collapse 5 years ago.

📖 Chapters - In this interview we cover...

00:00 - The Guilt Of WeWork & How To Let Go

15:40 - What Does Changing The World Actually Mean?

22:03 - Business And Community Tensions

27:36 - What Does Community Actually Mean?

32:21 - Community Ideologies vs Geographies

38:20 - Wisdom & Naval Ravikant

44:38 - When Does A Startup Become A Cult? "

57:26 - "How do you scale culture? "

01:04:03 - What culture practices to invest in as a smaller startup

01:11:21- Leaning Into Conflict

01:13:07 - Team Adam vs Team Miguel

01:21:24 - Power Tensions

01:26:27 - Rebekah Neumann's Role in WeWork

01:32:23 - S-1 IPO Filing

01:37:34 - The Public's Reaction To Adam

01:47:19 - Miguel's Awareness Of WeWork's Finances

01:54:02 - How Much To Trust Others In The Leadership Team?

01:57:18 - Noticing Scrappy Scaling

02:00:31 - Why It Made Sense For WeWork To Buy An Artificial Wave Startup

02:02:41 - Adam & Miguel's Reality Distortion

02:10:45 - What Really Destroyed WeWork

02:12:40 - How To Step Outside Of Ourselves & Reflect

02:18:08 - Miguel's Advice For Entrepreneurs

02:27:40 - What Can We Support Miguel With

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