Rebekah Neumann
Rebekah Victoria Neumann (born Rebekah Paltrow) is an American businesswoman born on February 26, 1978, in New York City. She grew up in Bedford, New York, the daughter of Evelyn and Bob Paltrow. Her father ran a direct mail business and spent years in prison for tax evasion. She is a first cousin of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and is Jewish. Early in life she went by the nickname Rebi when she started training in yoga. She studied business and Buddhism at Cornell University and later became a certified Jivamukti yoga instructor.
After college she worked in finance at Salomon Smith Barney, which is part of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. In the early 2010s she dabbled in acting and film work under the name Rebekah Keith.
In 2010, her husband Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey founded WeWork. Rebekah joined the company and by 2019 was often described as a cofounder. She served as chief brand and impact officer and led WeGrow, a private school opened in Chelsea in 2017 as part of the company’s education efforts.
WeWork’s plan to go public in 2019 ran into big financial questions. Rebekah stepped down from WeGrow and left her role at the company in September 2019. Some critics say her ideas and the language used in the IPO filing contributed to the company’s problems, and WeGrow closed at the end of the 2019–2020 school year. In 2020 she bought back some WeGrow assets and started a new venture called SOLFL (Student of Life for Life).
Rebekah Neumann and Adam Neumann have six children. She has faced criticism for promoting unscientific beliefs, such as the idea that meat can carry emotional memory.
In popular culture, Rebekah Neumann is portrayed by Anne Hathaway in the Apple TV+ series WeCrashed (2022). She is also mentioned in the nonfiction book Billion Dollar Loser (2020).
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