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Adam Neumann ‘shut out’ of WeWork buyback after company accepts a bid from Masa and former Softbank pals

May 28, 2024 Adam Neumann ‘shut out’ of WeWork buyback, capping a fraught saga between founder and company Rebuffed, Neumann slammed the plan to go with an offer that was $200 million less than his own as “unrealistic and unlikely to succeed.” BY Clint Rainey With two days until WeWork is expected to emerge from bankruptcy, … Continue reading Adam Neumann ‘shut out’ of WeWork buyback after company accepts a bid from Masa and former Softbank pals

Today’s top business headlines: Spotify adds users, Boeing faces new pressures, and Adam Neumann eyes a WeWork comeback

  By Kelly Cloonan February 07, 2024 Spotify’s posts subscriber growth: Spotify reported a 23% rise in monthly active users in the fourth quarter, which now total 602 million, just ahead of analysts’ expectations of 601.33 million. The rise, announced Tuesday, comes after the company raised subscriber prices and cut thousands of employees in a … Continue reading Today’s top business headlines: Spotify adds users, Boeing faces new pressures, and Adam Neumann eyes a WeWork comeback

Instagram head Adam Mosseri says sorry for all those trashy Threads recommendations

Instagram head Adam Mosseri says sorry for all those trashy Threads recommendations Threads is working on a fix for the ‘low-quality’ recommended posts that seem to have taken over recently. Cheyenne MacDonald   Sat, Jan 6, 2024 Whether or not you’ve actively been using Threads, you may have noticed — thanks to its integration into … Continue reading Instagram head Adam Mosseri says sorry for all those trashy Threads recommendations

‘It’s starting to feel like anything is possible’: Comedian Adam Conover on the next phase of the writers’ strike

  By David Salazar June 04, 2023 When comedian and writer Adam Conover started staffing up his 2022 Netflix comedy-documentary series The G Word, which explores the U.S. government, the precarity of Hollywood writers was hard to ignore. Conover recalls a meeting with the show’s producers: One of them noted that, because the show was … Continue reading ‘It’s starting to feel like anything is possible’: Comedian Adam Conover on the next phase of the writers’ strike

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant explains why we should normalize failure

  By Jessica Bursztynsky March 10, 2023 As mass layoffs and sky-high inflation continue to shake the economy, it seems the fear of a potential recession is on everyone’s mind these days. [Photo: Courtesy Adam Grant] Fast Company sat down with organizational psychologist and Wharton professor Adam Grant at BetterUp’s Uplift conference in San Francisco … Continue reading Organizational psychologist Adam Grant explains why we should normalize failure

Adam Neumann talked about Flow for a full hour, and we still don’t know what it is

  By Clint Rainey February 08, 2023 Adam Neumann and Andreessen Horowitz have shared the very first public details about the WeWork cofounder’s new residential real-estate startup, Flow. In footage released this week, he spoke for 53 whole minutes with Marc Andreessen and David Ulevitch, another partner at A16Z—Flow’s main financial backer, which has sunk … Continue reading Adam Neumann talked about Flow for a full hour, and we still don’t know what it is

Adam Neumann thinks we want ‘community-driven’ living, but how has that worked out in the past?

By Clint Rainey August 16, 2022   Everybody’s curious: What exactly is Flow, Adam Neumann’s new rental-housing startup that’s apparently snagged the largest check ever written by Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz? The reason for the curiosity is that, so far, Neumann and a16z aren’t saying much, beyond vague gestures at concocting some kind … Continue reading Adam Neumann thinks we want ‘community-driven’ living, but how has that worked out in the past?

Instagram Boss Adam Mosseri Offers Key Insights Into His Platform

Sahail Ashraf June 26, 2021 Adam Mosseri, Chief at Instagram, recently offered some useful insights into how marketers might get the most out of the platform. In the last few days, Instagram held a special Creator Week panel series, which was a great way to bring together Influencers and experts around the platform and it’s … Continue reading Instagram Boss Adam Mosseri Offers Key Insights Into His Platform