Rebekah Neumann

Rebekah Victoria Neumann (née Paltrow; born February 26, 1978) is an American businesswoman. Until September 22, 2019, she served as chief brand and impact officer at WeWork, a company founded by her husband, Adam Neumann, and oversaw its education program WeGrow.

Early life and education Neumann, the daughter of Evelyn and Bob Paltrow, grew up in Bedford, New York, and attended the Horace Mann School. Her father had a direct mail business and spent a number of years in prison for tax evasion. She received her yoga instructor certification from the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies. Neumann is a practicing Jew. When she started her yoga training, Rebekah went by the nickname Rebi. In the early 2010s, she acted in and produced some short films using the screen name Rebekah Keith.

In 2010, her husband, Adam Neumann, and Miguel McKelvey co-founded WeWork. In 2019 Rebekah Neumann began calling herself a cofounder of WeWork. She had contributed New Age language in the filing which as a result "read like a novel written by someone, who was 'shrooming", according to Scott Galloway. In September 2019, after an attempt to take the company public revealed deepening financial issues, it was announced that Rebekah Neumann would step down as CEO of WeGrow and relinquish her role in The We Company. In October 2019, it was announced that the WeGrow school would close at the end of the academic year.

In 2020, Neumann bought back some of WeGrow's assets and started Student of Life for Life (SOLFL).

Personal life Rebekah and American-Israeli entrepreneur Adam Neumann met in New York

Neumann has come under criticism for endorsing unscientific beliefs, such as the idea that meat has emotional memory that can be passed on through consumption.

In popular culture In the Apple TV+ series WeCrashed (2022), Rebekah Neumann is portrayed by Anne Hathaway. Neumann also appears in the nonfiction book Billion Dollar Loser (2020).

Filmography

Film

Short film