How SoftBank and WeWork Played Silicon Valley and Wall Street

The day of Daredevil founders and investors is done

Steve LeVine
Marker
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7 min readSep 27, 2019

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InIn June 2017, Adam Neumann, the founder and CEO of WeWork, stood in cap and gown before the graduating class of Baruch College. More than a decade earlier, he said, he had dropped out of Baruch, realizing he had wasted several semesters partying and chasing girls, and…

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Steve LeVine
Marker
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Editor at Large, Medium, covering the turbulence all around us, electric vehicles, batteries, social trends. Writing The Mobilist. Ex-Axios, Quartz, WSJ, NYT.