Adam Neumann
Adam Neumann is an Israeli-American billionaire businessman and the founder of Flow, a residential real estate startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz that operates properties in Florida and Saudi Arabia. He is best known as the co-founder and former CEO of WeWork, the coworking company he led from 2010 until his resignation in 2019 amid controversy surrounding its failed IPO. He also co-founded the family office 166 2nd Financial Services with his wife Rebekah Neumann in 2019 to manage their personal wealth and investments.
“Andreessen Horowitz backing both Adam Neumann (WeWork) and Travis Kalanick (Atoms) from the same original Benchmark fund suggests that mega-funds are increasingly making bets on founder identity rather than business thesis coherence.”
Source→“We put a lot of money into this. Yeah. The time was the biggest investment we ever made.”
Source→“There's only two people in the world who have ever successfully differentiated, branded and differentiated commercial real estate. And he said, one of them is currently president of the United States. And the other is Adam Newman.”
Source→“Adam's only had one idea. Yeah, this is the idea... he's been following this idea for his whole life now. And so... it's the thing that makes it so powerful.”
Source→“We're able to take a company like Flow, Adam Neumann's company, bring him to Saudi Arabia, introduce him to the right people in the government, introduce him to the right people in business, introduce him to the right investors.”
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