Imagine being married to Adam Neumann and still being the "weirdo" of the couple.

hahaha

the link's bust, though.

should be this, I hope

And it's worth the click:

The school she ultimately created in the WeWork headquarters building in Chelsea, designed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels and featured in Architectural Digest, would have morning meditation classes, called WePractice, and offer mentorship and entrepreneurship opportunities. ("In my book, there's no reason why children in elementary schools can't be launching their own businesses," Rebekah told Bloomberg.)

3,4: whoops, fixed.

I do not like the widespread magnification of liars and thieves, whether in "the wisdom of the Stoics-reading entrepreneur yogi" podcasts or "watch this rich bitch who called you fat in junior high get what she deserves" Netflix documentaries.

Congratulations on the post title.

The fact that WeWork is going public through a SPAC is a bit on the nose.

I didn't know their S-1 was so new-agey. All the news was about how the financial structure basically showed you would have to be a moron to invest in it. Normally, when you read an S-1 you wonder how the VCs might be conning you. This is the one time where investors instead realized that the VCs got conned, and didn't even realize it.

"an energy where I am you and you are me and we all are we."

See how they run like pigs from a gun / see how they fly

I don't know people like this in real life. This is my second time living through a tech boom and it feels like we're at about 1998.

This is the one time where investors instead realized that the VCs got conned, and didn't even realize it.

Actually, for SoftBank, definitely not just the one time.

I had to look up "cheugy" so I could understand "cheugystocracy".

Does that make me a cheug?

8: I was pleased with myself.

Is it some consolation to Ms. WeWork that Anne Hathaway is playing her in the film adaptation?

Little physical resemblance to Hathaway or Paltrow. Could be a Church Lady.

Haven't RTFA. I was wondering why her name seemed familiar.

A much more interesting and cool seeming Rebecca Neumann.

ARGH.

Am I the only one who thought "Nigerian 419 scammer vibe" ? There are idiots everywhere, including in VC. These bozos just decided to scam those idiots using a "special" "new" schtick.

Is the WeWork documentary on Hulu good?

She is also Gwyneth Paltrow's cousin and is apparently tortured by her eternal failure to be her cousin.

It took me forever to parse a non-contradictory meaning out of this sentence. I've been coding too much.

I mean, technically you're not wrong. I guess.

21: Now it doesn't make sense to me, either! I was trying to say "Rebekah is eternally tortured over the fact she's not Gwyneth." Her failure to be Gwyneth? Or her failure in not being Gyneth? idk anymore.

Huh. I thought it was pretty obvious what it meant. She's a cousin of this famous, glamorous woman, literally a lifestyle brand, and yet hasn't really done anything famous or glamorous, certainly nothing more notable than being a Smith-Barney trader (for a while). Oh, and being married to a guy who did some stuff. It must *eat her up* inside.

ETA: it's the 'cousin' version of "your brother/sister is doing so well, why don't you try to be more like them?"

At least, that's how I read it. I mean, Gwyneth is so famous, she gets lampooned by Stephen Colbert on national TV ... *repeatedly*. Imagine how much jealousy a jealous cousin might feel for that?

Maybe she could try selling a candle that smells like her vagina

It made perfect sense, but taking things that make perfect sense and misinterpreting them is my hobby and I didn't even notice the opportunity.

27 to 26.

Oh yes, once the switch flipped in my brain the sentence made perfect sense and now I have trouble making it not make sense, but apparently when I first read it I was in Martian mode.

Mars sucks now that they got rid of the canals.

Which isn't your fault.

That Percival Lowell has a lot to answer for, though.

29: I had a similar path to understanding the sentence. Got lost in at first and then it clicked.

32: Only for getting people to think Arizona is habitable. He was right about Mars, but the Martians caught wind that they were discovered and removed the canals.

The theme of the Burroughs Mars books is that the different peoples of Mars learn to live together in harmony, thanks to the efforts of our hero. I once idly thought of a sequel where this leads to ecological collapse (life on Mars is already pretty precarious) and everyone dies, leading to the lifeless Mars we see today.

Nope. They're standing behind the rover, laughing at us.

Idle question. Can we rule that out? There are like six satellites orbiting Mars. Can we rule out that the Martians are secretly following behind the Mars rovers, making bunny ears?

They're the same color as the Mars rocks.

Or at least their hats are. I don't want to get ahead of the data.

I don't think you're taking this very important question seriously.

Heebie's sentence was nicely done and she should be proud of it

Not as nice as the title.

aw, shucks.