This April, one of Inman’s most popular recurring theme months returns: Back to Basics. All month, real estate professionals from across the country share what’s working for them, how they’ve evolved their systems and tools, and where they’re investing personally and professionally to drive growth in 2022. It’s always smart to go Back to Basics with Inman.
IPOs gone oh-so-wrong. Romancers who aren’t at all what they appear. Corporations operating in secrecy while playing a shell game with consumers. Lately, there has been a proliferation of television shows dedicated to fraudsters and scammers of all kinds.
Maybe it’s because we’ve all been locked up for two years and are now wary of the outside world. Maybe it’s because we’re all living so much of our lives online these days. Whatever the reason, the entertainment world seems to be focusing more and more on true crime and the truly terrible things people do to one another.
Is it all just schadenfreude, or is there something to be gleaned from these tales of no-good, rotten, very bad actors and their deeds? We looked at four of the most popular recent docuseries to determine what they could teach us about being smarter both personally and professionally.
Inventing Anna
What it is
Anna Delvey (real name: Anna Vadimovna Sorokina) moves to Paris to work for Purple magazine and is sent to New York City, where she stays and bamboozles a host of…
