Venture Capital
Imagine for a moment you are Adam Neumann, the slick, smooth-talking Israeli-born entrepreneur who took the world by storm thirteen years ago with WeWork, his ultimately failed effort to rethink the way we office. Compare yourself to the other high-profile recent tech failures. Instead of heading off to prison for eleven years — like Elizabeth Holmes, of Theranos infamy — or seeming like you’ll inevitably end up there, like FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, you walk away with roughly $600 million in cash, plus another $400 million loan, and a new lease on life. You head underground,...