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The Beneficiary
- Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
- By: Janny Scott
- Narrated by: Janny Scott
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 220
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Story4 out of 5 stars 198
A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance - financial, cultural, genetic - conspired in one person's self-destruction.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Buy A Hard Copy
- By NFox on 06-08-19
- The Beneficiary
- Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
- By: Janny Scott
- Narrated by: Janny Scott
He was admired by so many
Reviewed: 04-01-22
What a wonderful book. You gave us a wonderful sense of the personalities in your family. I appreciate how you have woven the landscape changes and social changes over time together. Not all sweetness and light. No made for Hollywood sunsets either.
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The Cult of We
- WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
- By: Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 928
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 778
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Story5 out of 5 stars 774
WeWork would be worth $10 trillion, more than any other company in the world. It wasn’t just an office space provider. It was a tech company - an AI startup, even. Its WeGrow schools and WeLive residences would revolutionize education and housing. One day, mused founder Adam Neumann, a Middle East peace accord would be signed in a WeWork. The company might help colonize Mars. And Neumann would become the world’s first trillionaire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible
- By Reeka on 08-02-21
- The Cult of We
- WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
- By: Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer
How to give a horrible story five stars
Reviewed: 08-05-21
The epilogue begins by quoting F Scott Fitzgerald: “They were careless people.. “ That is an understatement. I make my living reading, writing and planning land-based investments. This is the second book I have read this summer on the Wework scandal. Well written and clearly told this book is about more than the waste of billions of US dollars at Wework. This book has made me more frequently nauseous and enraged than anything else I have ever read. Its worse than the stories about ponzi schemers. This story is about our penchant for messianic figures leading us to a Midas nirvana. It is about the myth of what is technology. It is about financing slight of hand promises rather than tangible goods, services and products. If you wish to become angry or ill, read this very good and clear book --. Avarice, narcissism and greed, or should that be gluttony. No they were not careless; they were intentional.
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