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Adam Neumann

24 statements across 5 episodes · 10 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 6, 2023 by Adam Neumann · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Feb 6, 2023
Assertion Supported
Neumann: The US is short 3 million to 5 million housing units
“There's, and the numbers varies, but between three to five million apartments and single-family homes missing right now in the U.S., and that number grows by hundreds of thousands of units a year”
Adam Neumann Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 29:01 Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
Feb 6, 2023
Disclosure
Neumann's family office acquired approximately 4,000 apartment units
“So we decided to go as a family office, very deep into multifamily. We bought approximately 4000 apartments”
Adam Neumann Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 3:48 Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
Feb 6, 2023 bullish
Insight
Neumann: Vertical integration is the only viable model for proptech
“Most prop tech companies come in and solve a point solution. They have this one solution, but then they need to take that solution, convince the landlords who are not even interested in buying anything because they're making money anyway, go to these old ERP s…”
Adam Neumann Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 29:30 Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
Feb 6, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Neumann: Companies prioritizing face-to-face interaction will win long-term
“I actually think if you look 10 years forward, the companies that are going to make the effort now to be face to face, now we can describe what face to face is, there are many ways to do it, but the companies that are actually going to do the face to face, I t…”
Adam Neumann Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 39:05 Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
Feb 6, 2023 neutral
Prediction Partly held up
Neumann: Over 70% of adults under 35 rent, and that will grow
“70% of thirty-five-year-olds and youngers are currently renters. They don't actually buy, and this number is not because of the interest rates that have been going up over the past six to 10 months. This is a number from 12 months ago. And we believe that that…”
Adam Neumann Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 18:47 Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
Feb 6, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Neumann: Google's corporate campus was the original inspiration for WeWork
“Google was inspiration for us that we work. Our point was, well, why can't small businesses have this great campus, have this great energy?”
Adam Neumann Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 25:18 Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
Feb 6, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Neumann: Flow founders matched Andreessen Horowitz's capital investment
“We contributed into this business at least as much as Andreessen contributed into this business”
Adam Neumann Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 44:32 Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
Feb 6, 2023
Disclosure
Neumann's family office made approximately 50 venture capital investments
“As that was happening, I started building a family office, and with my family office, we invested in about 50 venture investments.”
Adam Neumann Feb 6, 2023 ▶ 2:31 Disrupting the World's Largest Asset Class with Adam Neumann
Dec 15, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
a16z and Adam Neumann discussed partnership for 1.5 years before investing
“And we actually talked for a year and a half before anything happened.”
Adam Neumann Dec 15, 2023 ▶ 2:53 Redefining Partnership with Adam Neumann
Dec 15, 2023 negative
Insight
Neumann: Zoom cannot build company culture or create great companies
“You don't create memories on Zoom. And without memories, you don't create culture. And without culture, you don't create great companies.”
Adam Neumann Dec 15, 2023 ▶ 4:45 Redefining Partnership with Adam Neumann
May 20, 2024
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Ben Horowitz: Adam Neumann recently completed U.S. citizenship process
“Our friend Adam Newman just went through it.”
Ben Horowitz May 20, 2024 ▶ 19:27 The Future of the American Dream
Jun 12, 2025 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2028
Neumann: Flow Parent Company Has Closed Fundraising for Outside Capital
“We talk about raising money for real estate funds. We're not talking about raising money for flow parent company that that door is closed.”
Adam Neumann Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 44:37 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jun 12, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Horowitz: Flow is an inseparable combination of design, software, and culture
“When you, when we get into flow, what I see is it's a single idea about how people live that's enabled by design and technology and a business model and a culture and a whole set of things. And if you remove any one of them, it's not flow.”
Ben Horowitz Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 19:22 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jun 12, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Ben Horowitz: Adam Neumann is top two in the world at what he does
“He was clearly, like, clearly, clearly, clearly, like, as Mark said, you know, top two in one thing. There's just very few people on Earth that are top two in anything.”
Ben Horowitz Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 27:38 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jun 12, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Horowitz: Flow achieves unprecedented returns and higher rents on identical spaces
“The thesis of the value of the community, the technology everything that Adam's talked about, the design. Is proven out like before, you know, the product is maybe five percent done but it's already able to kind of generate, you know, kind of much higher deman…”
Ben Horowitz Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 50:12 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jun 12, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Neumann says a16z spent six months before investing in Flow
“And it took six months from that point. A lot of people think that this happened fast. It didn't. It took six months from that point to the actual investment”
Adam Neumann Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 39:09 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jun 12, 2025
Insight
Andreessen: Founders in public crises temporarily believe their negative press
“He goes, you know, the stage when you forgot everything you did and believe everything that was written about you. It's a stage. It will pass.”
Adam Neumann Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 0:12 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jun 12, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Neumann: Flow's first five real estate deals were negotiated in-person during COVID lockdowns
“And our first five acquisitions, who turned out to be amazing acquisitions, who we're going to get to talk about afterwards, but all have amazing basis were done like that.”
Adam Neumann Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 33:28 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jun 12, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adam Neumann Could Not Read Until Third Grade Due to Dyslexia
“I couldn't read until I was in the third grade.”
Adam Neumann Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 10:37 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jun 12, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Neumann: Flow now exclusively hires software engineers who want in-office work
“So let's say our engineers, we hire engineers that want to be in the office and the ones we hired before who weren't, We let them be wherever they were, because when they were hired, that was the deal that was made with them.”
Adam Neumann Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 1:26:22 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jun 12, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Neumann: Post-WeWork social circle plummeted from 1,000 friends to 10
“I had a thousand friends a week before. And I went down to 10. And five of them were family members.”
Adam Neumann Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 29:56 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jun 12, 2025 neutral
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2025
Neumann: Flow will sell five buildings while retaining long-term management
“We will sell our five buildings. We will sell our first asset in a month and we'll keep a management deal for the unforeseeable future.”
Adam Neumann Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 51:12 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jun 12, 2025
Disclosure
Neumann says he did zero diligence on early WeWork investors
“And the answer was actually none. For my first investors. They came to me. I didn't know anything. I didn't know any better.”
Adam Neumann Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 38:00 Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Jul 3, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Horowitz: a16z introduced Adam Neumann and Flow to Saudi government and investors
“So we're able to take a company like Flo, Adam Newman's company, bring him to Saudi Arabia, introduce him to the right people in the government, introduce him to the right people in business, introduce him to the right investors,”
Ben Horowitz Jul 3, 2026 ▶ 18:13 Ben Horowitz on the Global Race for Tech, Power, and Influence
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