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Comment by ericmay | Hacker News Reader

I liked the article, but didn’t find anything particularly new to me that hasn’t been said in previous articles by the WSJ, Atlantic, NYT, and others. There wasn’t anything “failing up”. Just a rehash of the same stuff.

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> “I actually think he’s probably one of the greatest entrepreneurs I’ve ever met,” Marc Benioff, the co-chief executive of Salesforce, told Business Insider on Oct. 15. “He’s an incredible evangelist. He’s an incredible visionary. He’s hired a lot of amazing people. He’s built an amazing brand, right?” Mr. Benioff did allow: “Unfortunately, there were some things, obviously, in the company that you probably would have preferred to change if he could do it all over again.”

He's smitten the Salesforce CEO. Qualifies as failing up, I guess?

FWIW this was new.. hadn't read it before:

Landlords sell aluminium, we sell iPhones - Dave Fano

[Edit] Quote attribution correction

Except it was more like we sell iPhones at half the cost we bought them for but claim we have a business because mindfulness. PS no meat.

This is not an accurate description of WeWorks's problems. These problems are legion, but they rent out space for more than they pay for it.

But it wasn't Adam Neumann who said it. The article attributes it to Dave Fano, the company’s chief growth officer (whatever that is).

Thanks. Made amends

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