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great, but they are forgetting one more detail. Even existing apartment buildings need to be fixed for remote renters. i.e. FLOW https://a16z.com/2022/08/15/investing-in-flow/

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> For Adam, the successes and lessons are plenty and we are excited to go on this journey with him and his colleagues building the future of living.

I’m sorry, this is a joke right?

> I’m sorry, this is a joke right?

Yes, but please don’t tell Andreesen Horowitz; they aren’t in on the joke.

Oh they are, they just cynically believe there are enough rubes that can be sold on the “vision”.

>That is suddenly no longer true. This newfound flexibility has triggered the “Great Resignation”, where people prioritized other factors over professional considerations. Many people are voting with their feet and moving away from traditional economic hub cities to different cities, towns, or rural areas, with no diminishment of economic opportunity.

>https://jobs.lever.co/flowlife

>All jobs ON-SITE

I'm gonna pass on this venture fixing the problem, they can't even dogfood their own founding principles.

well that's not fair, that's like a company trying to build a settlement on the moon and complaining they are making all their workers build the necessary steps to get there on earth!

I read that. I still don’t know what FLOW is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTHMwJ8kzjw

People still take Adam Neumann seriously?

for me there is a world of difference between him and someone like Elizabeth Holmes. Holmes committed crimes and put people's health in danger. Adam was just very good a playing the VC game.

> Adam was just very good at playing the VC game.

And he is still playing that game! If in five years we all discover he turned this into a giant nepotistic money-losing dumpster fire and left his VC firm holding the bag while he got a cool $1B exit package, no one has a right to be mad.

to be fair, the $350 million a16z put in is secured by the 4,000 multi family apartment buildings he owns. i.e. he transferred the deeds from his own company to this joint thing owned by him and a16z in order to get the 350.

Adam AND his wife are both unethical people bordering on fraud. I wouldn't buy or believe anything he says. He has still not taken responsibility for We Work, his part in its decline, and what appeared to be massive financial impropriety. Adam is a C-suite grifter, plain and simple.

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