Adam Neumann is Going with the Flow
WeWork is WeBack as a16z goes white male again!
Hey Guys,
The demographic trends driving America’s housing market are impossible to ignore, and so is the white male VC led America we have been living in since the advent of Silicon Valley.
Few founders have felt sleazy to the degree of Travis Kalnick with Uber, or Adam Neumann with WeWork. It just goes to show, repeat offenders as Startup founders get praise even for various degrees of fraud.
But let’s just praise the Flow and wisdom of Andreessen Horowitz. When you are a rich VC, what is $350 million anyways?
The WeWork co-founder is reportedly at the helm of Flow, a new company looking to reinvent apartment living, ready for another scheme to unbalance further American capitalism already teetering at the brink of inequality and failure.
It’s not just that Adam Neumann’s $350 million comeback is a ‘slap in the face’ to female founders and founders of color, it’s a symptom of how male-bias guides even the companies that do well under the custodianship of Silicon Valleys’ Titans, and Venture Capital community.
It’s painful and I agree with those who have been upset about this announcement.
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to OK, Robot to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.