Billionaire WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann is back in the entrepreneurship game with Flow, and he says he’s determined not to repeat the mistakes that led to the co-working startup’s monumental $47 billion collapse. This time, he says, he knows exactly why he failed.
“I think society has taught us that once we gain that success, once we gain those material things, we get to this number, suddenly that hole that we all feel inside of us will be full,” Neumann told Steven Bartlett on The Diary of a CEO podcast in an episode released Sept. 28. Of the most successful people he knows, Neumann added, “I have not seen one that got happy or fulfilled from attaining a number or a material thing.”
