WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn

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WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn

2021

1h 44m

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WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn is a feature documentary that explores the rise and fall of one of the biggest corporate flameouts and venture capitalist bubbles in recent years - the story of WeWork, and its hippie-messianic leader Adam Neumann. Utilizing interviews with journalists, experts, high-ranking former employees, and former WeWork members, WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn takes a look at the community-centric, people-first ideal that sent the little co-working venture sky-rocketing into unicorn investment territory, and then investigates what was really going on behind the scenes.

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It's hard to ignore the parts that are left unexamined, but WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn does well enough by its real-life stranger-than-fiction story.

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Leslie Felperin

Financial Times

Some might long for a deeper cultural analysis that explores the story's roots in late capitalist culture and the tech bro lifestyle, but informed viewers can look at the deep reporting here and draw their own conclusions.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 18, 2021

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

Fascinating on cult capitalism and the power of personality as a marketing tool for an otherwise unremarkable business plan.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 15, 2021

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Flora Spencer Grant

Little White Lies

A missed opportunity to interrogate workism and hustle culture.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 13, 2021

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Justin Brown

Medium Popcorn

For someone that was unfamiliar with the WeWork story, this was a pretty captivating documentary. I would've liked to learn a bit more though.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 6, 2025

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Francesca Steele

iNews.co.uk

A little vacuous, a handsome and timely regurgitation of reportage that’s already been done, without the deeper examination that would have made it as memorable...

Rated: 3/5

Dec 10, 2024

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Joanne Laurier

World Socialist Web Site

What stands out is how effectively Neumann was able to manipulate people who thought they were following a prophet, not a garden variety huckster.

Jul 1, 2022

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Gareth v

Solid enough documentary that spends too much time on it's leader Adam Neumann, and not enough on the business side of the rise and fall of WeWork.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/15/23

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patrick f

I knew nothing about WeWork and don't really follow financial news, but still found the documentary interesting. It was well edited with the use of many interviews and numerous pieces of archival news reports. Can be a little boring if you don't care about the financial markets and stories from that industry.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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J R

Not really the story of WeWork but the story of Adam Neumann

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

12/08/22

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Audience Member

This guy should've done better as a cult leader.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Audience Member

I knew nothing about WeWork and don't really follow financial news, but still found the documentary interesting. It was well edited with the use of many interviews and numerous pieces of archival news reports. Can be a little boring if you don't care about the financial markets and stories from that industry.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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dave d

Informative, yet empty, Jed Rothstein's documentary film on WeWork and it's owner and founder Adam Neumann is ultimately limited by its scope. Often abrupt for no reason, Rothstein can't get his arms around the truth is stranger than fiction tale. After going on the journey it ends so fast it leaves you wanting more, but also wondering why more questions were not answered. If you like middle of the road docs about greed.... There are a ton better. Final Score: 5/10

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn is a feature documentary that explores the rise and fall of one of the biggest corporate flameouts and venture capitalist bubbles in recent years - the story of WeWork, and its hippie-messianic leader Adam Neumann. Utilizing interviews with journalists, experts, high-ranking former employees, and former WeWork members, WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn takes a look at the community-centric, people-first ideal that sent the little co-working venture sky-rocketing into unicorn investment territory, and then investigates what was really going on behind the scenes.

Director: Jed Rothstein
Producer: Ross M. Dinerstein
Screenwriter: Jed Rothstein
Production Co: Campfire, Olive Hill Media, Forbes Entertainment
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 2, 2021
Runtime: 1h 44m

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