Masa was enamored by Adam, but others at SoftBank and the Vision Fund were less convinced.

Fujita agreed to meet for fifteen minutes, during which he encouraged Son to go to America and offered him one word of career advice: “Computers.”

After less than a month as an American high school student, Masa graduated.

“You get to a question of, is that what capitalism is supposed to do?” Schwartz asked. “There’s so many little ways that a company like this tells the next generation of entrepreneurs what success looks like.

undercut its rhetoric about changing the world and doing what you love,

WeWork’s public affairs team lobbied heavily against the idea: Trump’s presidency, and all that it stood for, was the antithesis of the world Neumann claimed WeWork was creating.

in life, it was sometimes necessary to do “the opposite of our nature.”

“supervoting” shares had become popular in Silicon Valley,

CHUNK OF WEWORK’S EARLY money came from Rebekah, Adam’s wife,