'WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn' exclusive sneak peek: 'Is this a cult?'
This exclusive clip from the Hulu documentary spotlight’s Neumann’s Tony Robbins-style ability to win over a big crowd, turning even hardened skeptics into devout believers.
Video Transcript
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LIRON DAVID: My experience with WeWork, it was like living in another world. It was living in a world where people were just happy, right? They were happy to be around each other. What WeWork created was this environment of present existence and celebrating life with with meaning. The world is a dark place, and this little cave of WeWork was my happy spot.
- The only thing that stands in the way of achieving anything you want is just you. You know the most amazing--
- At one of these events I was sitting towards the back and there was an older usher there. And it was an African-American guy. And he just started asking me some questions.
And he was like, you know, what's the company about? What do you do there? And you know, I'm answering questions, we're going on and on, and he just kind of changed his tone of voice and he kind of looked down on me a little bit.
And he was like, "Brother, can I ask you a serious question?" And I was like yeah sure, ask me the question. He says, "Is this some kind of cult?"
