WEWORK'S FAMILY TIME IS OVER

摘要

Adam Neumann spent some of his final days as We Work's chief executive officer the same way he had for countless weekends in recent years: surrounded by family at his house in the Hamptons. With the company's plan to go public in tatters, his control over the business dwindling, and its biggest investor starting to turn against him, Neumann and his wife and business partner, Rebekah, and their five kids unplugged at sundown on Friday, Sept. 20, to observe the weekly Jewish ritual of Shabbat. At the same time, SoftBank Group Corp.'s Masayoshi Son was preparing to oust him. Son's businesses had more than $10 billion riding on the company in stock and loans. Over the course of a month, financial advisers to WeWork determined that the shares were worth about a quarter of the price SoftBank paid in January. The problem, Son reasoned, was Neumann. Within four days, the CEO and his wife had stepped aside.