Evidence receipt / evaluation
Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: evaluation
25 Oct 2019 Acquired The WeWork “Acquisition” (with Dan Primack)
“Adam, of course, had Miguel as his co-founder. It’s now obfuscated because they have their shares in an LLC, but I believe Adam always had a greater economic percentage of the company than Miguel.”
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- David Rosenthal
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- evaluation
- Recorded
- 25 Oct 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
Transcript context
…I don’t know for sure. Adam Neumann even at the time of IPO, owned a remarkable amount. For example, Travis Kalanick, I think, owned like 6% of Uber when he got booted, around 6%. Adam owned ⅓ of the company after all the SoftBank money, et cetera. He controlled this thing even in those early days. Adam, of course, had Miguel as his co-founder. It’s now obfuscated because they have their shares in an LLC, but I believe Adam always had a greater economic percentage of the company than Miguel. If you remember, back to Uber and Travis, Travis was not the owner of Uber. It was Garrett Camp. But Adam had a bigger piece than Garrett had of Uber, I mean going forward.…
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