Publishers Weekly wrote that the book was "a thrilling page-turner about the fantastic success and subsequent crash of WeWork."[1] Writing for The New Republic, J.C. Pan described it as "a definitive chronology of a company doomed not by one bad business strategy—or even Neumann’s outsize ego—but by the rot of a postrecession economy that nurtured a certain flavor of investor-class mania."[2] On the other hand, Walter Kirn described the book as a "cautionary tale" about Neumann.[3]
Jennifer Szalai of The New York Times wrote that Wiedeman allowed the evidence and anecdotes from Neumann's time as CEO to speak for itself, illustrating a confidence game through which "Neumann had passed himself off as a tech visionary."[4] Kathryn Brenzel, in a review for the trade publication The Real Deal, wrote that the book was "more recap than revelation".[5]
