page_title: Adam Neumann
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Adam Neumann / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: NEW YORK, NY - MAY 05: Co-Founder and CEO of WeWork, Adam Neumann speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015 - Day 2 at The Manhattan Center on May 5, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
context_page_description: Adam Neumann is an Israeli-American former billionaire businessman. In 2010, he co-founded WeWork, alongside Miguel McKelvey and his spouse Rebekah Neumann.
  Following mounting pressure from investors based on disclosures made in its S-1 filing, Neumann resigned from his position as CEO of WeWork and gave up majority voting control as of September 26, 2019. WeWork also delayed its planned stock market listing until the end of 2019 amid growing investor concerns over its corporate governance, valuation, and outlook for the business. On September 30, 2019, WeWork formally withdrew its S-1 filing and postponed the IPO. He served as WeWork's CEO from 2010–2019.
context_section_description: Neumann lives in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City with his wife, Rebekah Neumann, and their five children, including two pairs of twins. Rebekah is a cousin of Gwyneth Paltrow. Neumann's sister, Adi Neumann, is a model and was Miss Teen Israel.
  In 2018, Neumann gave a keynote speech at an event held by UJA-Federation of New York where he spoke of observing Shabbat with his family every week and the role Judaism has played in his personal and professional growth.
  The Wall Street Journal reported that Neumann had aspirations such as living forever, becoming the world's first trillionaire, expanding WeWork to the planet Mars, becoming Israel's prime minister, and becoming "president of the world". A September 2019 Vanity Fair article reported that Neumann made claims that he convinced Rahm Emanuel to run for the presidency of the United States,  used JPMorgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon as his personal banker, convinced Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman to improve the standing of women in Saudi Arabia, and claimed to be working with Jared Kushner on the Trump administration's peace plan for the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
caption: Adam Neumann talking at TechCrunch in 2015
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