OLD Media Moves

WSJ reporters sign contract to write WeWork book

September 30, 2019

Posted by Chris Roush

Wall Street Journal reporters Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell have signed a contract with a Random House imprint to write a book about WeWork, reports Kia Kokalitcheva of Axios.

Kokalitcheva writes, “The growing influence of technology companies on the world has made them not only the subjects of regulatory and investor scrutiny, but now also the focus of grand business narratives.

“The intrigue: There’s already been a string of books about tech companies’ troubles and tensions, from John Carreyrou’s ‘Bad Blood’ (about Theranos) to Mike Isaac’s ‘Super Pumped’ (about Uber). Brown tells Axios there’s room for more.

“‘[The story of WeWork] tells us a lot about Silicon Valley in the past decade, as well as a chunk of global finance,’ says Brown, adding that he views the company as part of Silicon Valley even though it’s based in New York because ‘its funding sources and the way it marketed itself were all in line with Silicon Valley startups.'”

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