Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork by Reeves Wiedeman

BATB score: 7/10 🏙

Adam Neumann, WeWork co-founder, though a billion dollar loser is still a billionaire 💸 - yes, fortune favours the bold

Best to: sales skills, extruding confidence, charismatic persona and interpersonal skills trump actual business numbers in gaining trust from co-founders and billion dollar investors

Best for: a critical book for aspiring entrepreneurs, start-ups innovators, and IPO dreamers to learn about the hustles and pitfalls of a one-person leadership dreaming big dreams yet ungrounded to reality (and that's why it went boom! yet it has always been a boom boom - it was just hidden)

Best as: why your wife can be your best friend but can not be your business partner nor successor #nepotism ; know when to step down gracefully before your best buddies beg you to please step down

BATB key takeaway: when EBITDA looks bad, introduce a new metric called Community Adjusted EBITDA and make it look good lol

Best quotes: "Work hard and in silence, then let success make the f&cking noise.”

"There is a fool in every market. If you don't know who it is, it is probably you."

"Forget things that aren't worth remembering"