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The man who almost blew up WeWork wants to sell you something new

By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
Financial Times·
19 mins to read

Adam Neumann wants his story to be told. No, not the one about the weed-smoking, tequila-loving, free-spending wild child who took his co-working unicorn WeWork to a US$47 billion (NZ$69.4b) valuation and then to the brink of collapse.

That tale has already been the subject of countless unflattering articles, podcasts, page-turners, television documentaries and, later this month, an Apple TV+ series in which Jared Leto plays Neumann with Israeli-accented messianic flair.

This story, Adam Neumann's version of the Adam Neumann

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