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Jared Kushner got help from ousted WeWork CEO on Middle East peace plan: report
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"Adam Neumann, the founder of the co-working giant WeWork, helped work on White House adviser Jared Kushner’s Middle East peace plan, Vanity Fair’s Gabe Sherman reports.
Neumann, a college dropout who built WeWork into a company valued by investors at $47 billion ($10 billion more than the auto giant Ford), was ousted earlier this year with a $1.7 billion golden parachute after the company faced bankruptcy when its valuation plummeted by $40 billion. (Neumann reportedly cast the deciding vote against himself.) In a report titled “The Fall of WeWork,” Sherman detailed Neumann’s habit of declaring that he wanted to be “elected president of the world” and become humanity’s first trillionaire while spending millions of the company’s money on “vanity projects” like a wave-pool company. Sources told Sherman that Neumann’s “egomaniacal glamour and millennial mysticism” led Neumann to believe that he could solve “the world’s thorniest problems,” like Middle East peace.
WeWork executives were “shocked” to learn that Neumann, who was born and raised on an Israeli settlement near the Gaza Strip, was working on Kushner’s Middle East peace plan last summer, two sources told Sherman. Neumann tasked Roni Bahar, WeWork’s director of development, with finding a company to produce a “slick video” for Kushner to show what the West Bank and Gaza would look like after the economic transformation that would purportedly be brought upon by the plan.
Kushner showed a version of the video during a speech at the White House’s peace conference in Bahrain last year.
Neumann bragged to associates that he, Kushner, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman would “save the world,” sources told the outlet. After U.S. intelligence concluded that bin Salman likely ordered the murder and dismemberment of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Neumann told former George W. Bush national security adviser Stephen Hadley that “everything could be worked out if bin Salman had the right mentor,” Sherman reported.
When a confused Hadley asked Neumann who he had in mind, Neumann replied, “Me.”
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/25/jared-kushner-got-help-from-ousted-wework-ceo-on-middle-east-peace-plan-report/
We are in the hands of fools and charlatans.
“YOU DON’T BRING BAD NEWS TO THE CULT LEADER”: INSIDE THE FALL OF WEWORK
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/inside-the-fall-of-wework
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"Adam Neumann, the founder of the co-working giant WeWork, helped work on White House adviser Jared Kushner’s Middle East peace plan, Vanity Fair’s Gabe Sherman reports.
Neumann, a college dropout who built WeWork into a company valued by investors at $47 billion ($10 billion more than the auto giant Ford), was ousted earlier this year with a $1.7 billion golden parachute after the company faced bankruptcy when its valuation plummeted by $40 billion. (Neumann reportedly cast the deciding vote against himself.) In a report titled “The Fall of WeWork,” Sherman detailed Neumann’s habit of declaring that he wanted to be “elected president of the world” and become humanity’s first trillionaire while spending millions of the company’s money on “vanity projects” like a wave-pool company. Sources told Sherman that Neumann’s “egomaniacal glamour and millennial mysticism” led Neumann to believe that he could solve “the world’s thorniest problems,” like Middle East peace.
WeWork executives were “shocked” to learn that Neumann, who was born and raised on an Israeli settlement near the Gaza Strip, was working on Kushner’s Middle East peace plan last summer, two sources told Sherman. Neumann tasked Roni Bahar, WeWork’s director of development, with finding a company to produce a “slick video” for Kushner to show what the West Bank and Gaza would look like after the economic transformation that would purportedly be brought upon by the plan.
Kushner showed a version of the video during a speech at the White House’s peace conference in Bahrain last year.
Neumann bragged to associates that he, Kushner, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman would “save the world,” sources told the outlet. After U.S. intelligence concluded that bin Salman likely ordered the murder and dismemberment of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Neumann told former George W. Bush national security adviser Stephen Hadley that “everything could be worked out if bin Salman had the right mentor,” Sherman reported.
When a confused Hadley asked Neumann who he had in mind, Neumann replied, “Me.”
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/25/jared-kushner-got-help-from-ousted-wework-ceo-on-middle-east-peace-plan-report/
We are in the hands of fools and charlatans.
“YOU DON’T BRING BAD NEWS TO THE CULT LEADER”: INSIDE THE FALL OF WEWORK
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/inside-the-fall-of-wework
