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Founder of [[WeWork]], [[FlowCarbon]], and [[Flow]].
Founder of [[WeWork]], [[FlowCarbon]], and [[Flow]].
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= Corporate History =
= Corporate History =

Revision as of 18:19, 8 March 2023

Founder of WeWork, FlowCarbon, and Flow.

Corporate History

WeWork

Trademarked the brand “We” and sold it to his company for US$5.9 million.[1] WeWork managed to get the money back, after a public outcry.[2]

Nevertheless, Neumann made off with over $1 billion USD during the 2019 collapse of WeWork, even as the company had to fire over 6,000 workers.

According to former executives of WeWork: “Nothing could happen without Adam"; "You don’t bring bad news to the cult leader."[3]

FlowCarbon

International Politics

Messiah Complex

In another meeting, Neumann said three people were going to save the world: bin Salman, Jared Kushner, and Neumann. Shortly after the news broke in October 2018 that Saudi agents tortured dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and carved his body with a bone saw, likely on order from the crown prince himself, Neumann told George W. Bush’s former national security adviser Stephen Hadley that everything could be worked out if bin Salman had the right mentor. Confused, Hadley asked who that person might be, according to a source familiar with the meeting. Neumann paused for a moment and said: “Me.”[4]