Adam Neumann

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"I used to be much closer to Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce. He heard about Masa's offer and he called me and said, 'Adam, I only know you for a little bit and I know you're not going to listen to my advice, but I want you to fly to Japan and say no to Masa.'"

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"The surfing thing we bought for $7 million was 48% of a company called Wave Garden. We bought it because we thought you could build amazing communities around surf. Wave Garden today does north of, as far as I know, north of 500 million in sales for 2027."

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"Masa is one of the best investors in the world. He's also one of the biggest investors in the world. In my story, Masa is the hero even though a lot of people who didn't know the story correctly might have misunderstood. Masa took a bet on me and he did amazing."

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"If you're an entrepreneur today and you take money from Benchmark, the company that took me out, that took Travis out — Travis from Uber, Jack Dorsey from Square, Twitter, Block — and many more. So when you choose your investors, look at their history. Are they the kind that support entrepreneurs like you?"