, including accounts of him smoking marijuana on a private flight to Israel. Sex, tequila, and a tiger: Employees inside Adam Neumann's WeWork talk about the nonstop party to attain a $100 billion dream and the messy reality that tanked it
WeWork previously adjusted its IPO filing to address investor concerns over how WeWork would be controlled after the public offering. Among them was a shift to give the board the power to remove Neumann. His wife — Rebekah Paltrow Neumann —Below are the board members' connections to WeWork, plus some of their professional highlights. Ronald Fisher is the former CEO of Phoenix Technologies.The 71-year-old founded SoftBank Capital, a US venture-capital firm owned by the Japanese conglomerate.
, which he repaid with interest in May. Frankfort owns about 2 million shares, including nearly 750,000 class B shares owned by his family trust.Frankfort is the former CEO of Coach, a luxury clothing and accessory brand.Bruce Dunlevie's firm invested $6.7 billion in eBay in 1997.A longtime tech investor, Dunlevie joined WeWork's board in 2012. His firm Benchmark invested $6.7 billion in eBay in 1997 and has provided funding to Twitter, Uber, Snapchat, and Instagram.