This is the stranger-than-fiction story of Wirecard, once a $30 billion tech darling, now a smoldering wreck, by the journalist who brought it crashing down, for lovers ofBad BloodandThe Billion Dollar Whale.When journalist Dan McCrum followed a tip to investigate the hot new tech company challenging Silicon Valley, everything about Wirecard looked a little too good to be true: offices were sprouting up around the world, it was reporting runaway growth and the CEO even wore a black turtleneck in tribute to Steve Jobs. In the space of a few short years, the company had come from nowhere to overtake industry giants like Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank on the stock market.As McCrum dug deeper, he encountered a story stranger and more dangerous than he ever imagined: a world of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. Before long he realized that he wasn't the only one in pursuit. Shadowy figures were following him through the streets of London, high-flying lawyers were sending ominous letters to his boss, and he was named as the prime suspect in a criminal inquiry. The race was on to prove his suspicions and clear his name.Money Men is the astonishing inside story of Wirecard's multi-billion-dollar fraud, Europe's biggest new tech darling revealed as a house of cards. Uncovering fake bank accounts, fake offices and possibly even a fake death, McCrum offers a searing exposé that will finally lay bare the truth.
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Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
By Dan McCrum
This is the stranger-than-fiction story of Wirecard, once a $30 billion tech darling, now a smoldering wreck, by the journalist who brought it crashing down, for lovers ofBad BloodandThe Billion Dollar Whale.When journalist Dan McCrum followed a tip to investigate the hot new tech company challenging Silicon Valley, everything about Wirecard looked a little too good to be true: offices were sprouting up around the world, it was reporting runaway growth and the CEO even wore a black turtleneck in tribute to Steve Jobs. In the space of a few short years, the company had come from nowhere to overtake industry giants like Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank on the stock market.As McCrum dug deeper, he encountered a story stranger and more dangerous than he ever imagined: a world of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. Before long he realized that he wasn't the only one in pursuit. Shadowy figures were following him through the streets of London, high-flying lawyers were sending ominous letters to his boss, and he was named as the prime suspect in a criminal inquiry. The race was on to prove his suspicions and clear his name.Money Men is the astonishing inside story of Wirecard's multi-billion-dollar fraud, Europe's biggest new tech darling revealed as a house of cards. Uncovering fake bank accounts, fake offices and possibly even a fake death, McCrum offers a searing exposé that will finally lay bare the truth.
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Reviewed by PeanutIch habe bei “Money Men” auf eine spannende Erklärung über den Wirecard Skandal gehofft und wurde leider enttäuscht. Obwohl wahrscheinlich fast niemand so viel über den Skandal weiß wie Dan McCrum, fehlt mir in dem Buch viel von diesem Insider Wissen. Natürlich ist es trotzdem geprägt von spannenden Anekdoten über den ganzen investigativen Journalismus von McCrum über Wirecard und alle möglichen Hürden, die ihm in den Weg gelegt wurden. Leider ist das meiner Meinung nach aber genau das Problem an dem Buch: Ich habe eine Erklärung zu Wirecard erwartet und habe eher eine Biografie über McCrum bekommen. Es gibt immer wieder Handelsstränge und Erzählungen, die nicht wirklich direkt etwas mit Wirecard zu tun haben. Dadurch wird das Buch extrem aufgebläht und zieht sich ewig. An sich ist das Buch nicht schlecht geschrieben, aber die Struktur lässt ein bisschen zu wünschen übrig und es wird teilweise zu viel ausgeschmückt und zu viel nebensächliches erklärt. Leider hat mir das Buch nicht gut gefallen, obwohl mich das Thema eigentlich interessiert.