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Yeah, apparently it is not that obvious as on HN these 3 you named were worshipped here, negative/critical comments downvoted, while objectively the writing was on the wall. Wework being the most obvious to me personally; that was a shitshow from the start and yet people here actually believed that would succeed.

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Totally agreed. And I'd be much more comfortable if people here could split the two. E.g., "I'm not sure if that business will work, but I hope so because I just love Neumann; he's so magnetic, so compelling!"

But instead we get supposedly hyper-rational arguments that are pretty clearly highly emotional. And then when the wheels come off, the support just evaporates, with nary a "mea culpa", let alone a "here's how WeWork fooled me" post.

It's just exhausting sometimes.

My favourite is when someone points out had bad these companies are, inevitably someone else links "the Dropbox thread" as justification. This is tremendously ironic, because Dropbox hasn't made a dime yet either.

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