Here's a story I didn't think I'd write: one about a source

In 2016, WeWork employee Joanna Strange approached me with docs that showed WeWork's shaky finances & internal recordings of Adam Neumann. WeWork sued her.

Now she wants to tell her story: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-25/wework-s-first-whistleblower-joanna-strange-tells-her-story

In the history of WeWork, Joanna is kind of a divisive figure: she felt it was important to speak out about WeWork's finances, but she also became a pariah among her former colleagues for sharing internal info

And despite what she shared, WeWork's trajectory kept blazing upward

Years later, the recordings she shared of Adam form the backbone of Foundering, our new(!) podcast on WeWork

The recordings, in hindsight, reveal a lot about Adam: how he cajoled & motivated his workers, and how he saw dangers ahead but didn't avoid them https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decrypted/id1161880916

I'm biased, obv, but I feel like hearing Adam's voice in these less-guarded moments is special -- he jokes, he threatens, he rhapsodizes. His personality was such a big part of WeWork. This offers a small window into his mind

anyway i hope you all listen! first two eps out now!