More annoying than the wrong track is the missed track.
Editor’s note: This article is from the WeChat public account “Chief Views” (ID: Sxrenwuguan), author Jiang Yue Huang Yingying.
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Crazy is the label of Adam Neumann.
The dismissed WeWork CEO and co-founder has a lot of deviant actions: walking barefoot on the streets of New York; playing avid music in the office, shouting in response to customer protests against volume; publicly listing his wife in the prospectus One of the three designated successors for his own accident.
Figure: Adam Noy Man
Earlier, his dreams included becoming the president of the world, becoming the world’s first super-rich billion-dollar asset, and living forever.
However, in Sun Zheng’s view, these madness is not enough.
When the two met for the first time in 2017, he told Adam Neumann: In a fight, being crazy is better than being smart—and that WeWork wasn’t being “crazy enough”. (In battle, crazy Better than smart, WeWork is still not crazy enough).
Sun Justice promoted this crazy capital game with real money, so far, he has placed more than $10 billion in bets, and WeWork’s valuation was once pushed up to $47 billion. – Burning money for valuation, this is the secret of Sun Zhengyi’s investment in the Internet era.
In the judgment of the track and the players, Sun Zhengyi once had the precision of the top hunters.
Founding in 2000, Ma Yun made him famous in China’s capital market. At that time, Alibaba just set up a few months. Sun Zhengyi came to China to find the Internet investment target. In Beijing, he listened to Ma Yun for 5 minutes and began to request. The other party accepts their own investment