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WeWork’s Adam Neumann on investing, startups, surfing and Masayoshi Son

• andrewfromx 5y ago
  “He admitted last year that the intoxicating valuations put on his company went to his head. (At one point, Son projected that WeWork could be worth $10tn by 2028.) But even his friends are not sure that he has any real regrets, except for not pausing WeWork’s spending at the right time to show Wall Street that it could generate a profit. “I don’t think he feels remorse,” one says. “I think he’s still processing what happened to him and is in search of wanting to have that thing again.” That thing being the surfer-founder’s high of conquering the next, bigger wave.”