I followed the WeWork story for a few years and was a skeptic of the company even before they filed their S1. I was excited when I saw that they were making a documentary about this and watched it recently but came out disappointed overall.
The documentary is more like them pulling out notes from several different articles written about WeWork with added footage they obtained and interviews with about 4-5 employees and several journalists and experts.
There is nothing in this documentary that was not public knowledge except for few tidbits from the employee interviews.
Overall the makers spent about 95% of the time talking about Adam Neumann and his cult like personality and how he misled the people he worked with. While this might have led to their eventual downfall, the downfall itself was the least interesting part about this documentary where they spent about 4-5 minutes on what happened.
Additionally, Adam's wife Rebekah Neumann was given some mentions but they failed to bring in how much she was responsible for the toxic environment that WeWork was. I have read several articles which had interviews with former and existing employees who talked about how Rebekah was there and probably one of the big reasons for the eventual downfall, however, you won't find much details in this documentary.
Overall, this is not a bad documentary and shows what WeWork was and how they enticed (or maybe fooled) young people into giving up things (including taking lesser salaries) to work at WeWork with the hopes that they were building a better world and how they were fooled. However, if you are watching this to know more about the failures and insider views you are better off reading articles around this.
The documentary is more like them pulling out notes from several different articles written about WeWork with added footage they obtained and interviews with about 4-5 employees and several journalists and experts.
There is nothing in this documentary that was not public knowledge except for few tidbits from the employee interviews.
Overall the makers spent about 95% of the time talking about Adam Neumann and his cult like personality and how he misled the people he worked with. While this might have led to their eventual downfall, the downfall itself was the least interesting part about this documentary where they spent about 4-5 minutes on what happened.
Additionally, Adam's wife Rebekah Neumann was given some mentions but they failed to bring in how much she was responsible for the toxic environment that WeWork was. I have read several articles which had interviews with former and existing employees who talked about how Rebekah was there and probably one of the big reasons for the eventual downfall, however, you won't find much details in this documentary.
Overall, this is not a bad documentary and shows what WeWork was and how they enticed (or maybe fooled) young people into giving up things (including taking lesser salaries) to work at WeWork with the hopes that they were building a better world and how they were fooled. However, if you are watching this to know more about the failures and insider views you are better off reading articles around this.