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b'Reeves Wiedeman is a reporter at\\xa0New York and the author of the new book Billion Dollar Loser.\\n\\n\\u201cYou get inside these companies and \\u2026 you assume everything is running based on models and numbers and then you get inside and it\\u2019s just people. And sometimes they have MBAs and sometimes they don\\u2019t. \\u2026 At the end of the day, whether you\\u2019re running a media company or an office space company, it\\u2019s all people making these decisions and they often do very strange, contradictory, and ultimately unsuccessful things.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to\\xa0Mailchimp\\xa0for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\nShow notes:\\n@reeveswiedeman\\nreeveswiedeman.net\\nWiedeman on Longform\\nWiedeman on Longform Podcast\\nWiedeman\'s archive at\\xa0New York Magazine\\n01:00\\xa0"The Watcher"\\xa0(New York \\u2022 Nov 2018)\\n01:00\\xa0"What\'s Left of Cond\\xe9 Nast"\\xa0(New York \\u2022 Oct 2019)\\n01:00\\xa0"A Company Built on a Bluff"\\xa0(New York \\u2022 Jun 2018)\\n01:00\\xa0"The I in We"\\xa0(New York \\u2022 Jun 2019)\\n02:00\\xa0Billion Dollar Loser\\xa0(Little Brown \\u2022 2020)\\n17:00\\xa0"Is Uber Evil, Or Just Doomed?"\\xa0(New York \\u2022 May 2017)\\n25:00\\xa0Cambridge Analytica coverage at\\xa0The Guardian\\n\\n\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'