Adam Neumann

Adam Neumann (born April 25, 1979) is an Israeli-American entrepreneur, investor, and former chief executive officer of WeWork, the co-working space provider he co-founded in 2010 with Miguel McKelvey.

The familial disruption following the divorce fostered a peripatetic childhood marked by frequent relocations within Israel, contributing to Neumann's early exposure to varied social settings amid his parents' professional pursuits in medicine. His mother's role as a single parent during this time underscored themes of resilience, though specific causal links to his later entrepreneurial drive remain anecdotal rather than empirically documented in primary accounts. Neumann's great-grandfather had emigrated from Poland to Israel in 1934, with extended family members perishing in the Holocaust, providing a backdrop of historical Jewish migration and survival that contextualizes the family's Israeli roots.