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...Neumann stepped down as WeWork’s chief executive in 2019 after a failed attempt to take the company he co-founded public....
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...It isn’t the first time Neumann has tried to get back into the company he built from a small start-up into a business that some investors valued at $47bn....
...Flow, Neumann’s new property company, confirmed the offer on Monday, saying “a coalition of half a dozen financing partners — whose identities are known to WeWork and its advisers — submitted a potential...
...That has become a harder sell than in Neumann’s heyday. Perhaps he has learnt his lesson: he says he will “build a very solid foundation” at Flow....
...Third Point, a New York hedge fund that Neumann named in a letter to WeWork last month as a “partner”, is not involved, according to people familiar with the matter....
...In a statement to the Financial Times, a spokesperson for Third Point said the firm is still in preliminary discussion and has not committed to financing Neumann’s bid....
...A quick recap: Neumann founded WeWork in 2010 and turned it into a global brand with a $47bn valuation....
...the debt and I don’t think anyone is willing to entertain that.”...
...(In Neumann’s case, even a small portion of that $1bn buys a large chunk of WeWork creditors’ attention.)...
...However, Third Point told the Financial Times it had held “only preliminary conversations with Flow [Neumann’s property company] and Adam Neumann about their ideas for WeWork, and has not made a commitment...
...The real question is why with Neumann, you know, that they don’t; neither of these firms need Neumann to come back into WeWork. And that, we don’t know....
...In a letter to the company last month, Neumann leaned into the name dropping....
...The problems facing him are a legacy of Adam Neumann, the WeWork co-founder who set out to “elevate the world’s consciousness” by overhauling its office space....
...“China’s gaining market share vis-à-vis other Asian exporters and possibly against exports elsewhere in the world,” said HSBC’s Neumann....
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...Barry T GambleSenior Adviser, Non-Executive Directors Association, Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK...
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...Sinéad O’Sullivan is a former Senior Researcher at Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Adam Neumann is back, with a lot to say on… defence and national security?...
...Flow, Neumann’s new property company confirmed that “a coalition of half a dozen financing partners . . . submitted a potential bid” two weeks ago....
...’t several years ago in the Adam Neumann era....
...“Putting people on a board unnecessarily can harm a company. I don’t know why shareholders would take that risk,” he added....
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