id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-newyorker-com-1416 How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism | The New Yorker .html text/html 8840 509 68 Cartoon by Edward SteedA former high-ranking WeWork executive told me that, by 2018, "our job had basically become to make sure Adam didn't do anything really stupid or really illegal—the board knew Adam was the key to raising money, and, as long as their valuations kept going up, they weren't going to risk upsetting him." The company continued to grow rapidly; it would soon be opening a new location nearly every day, and adding hundreds of new employees each month, many of whom were paid partly in stock—making those workers, in effect, a new venture-capital class for the firm. ./cache/www-newyorker-com-1416.html ./txt/www-newyorker-com-1416.txt