{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fa16z.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fadam-neuman-this-is-how-you-build-iconic-companies-oS01oeoD","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/0d97354a-306b-45f5-bf26-a8d81eef47ec/3a42c11b-5784-4486-ade8-55fdb5076878/the-20ben-20and-20marc-20show-20-e2-80-93-20adam-20-203000x3000-20-20no-20copy-20-20new-202.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/bfde9b8b-0be0-4a61-9c52-65a30e51a28c\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"In this recent episode of The Ben & Marc Show, a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sit down with Adam Neumann—founder of WeWork and now Flow—to unpack one of the most unlikely comeback stories in tech.\n\nWhat began as a personal reckoning after a very public fall has become a bold new vision for how we live and belong. Flow isn’t just a real estate company—it’s an operating system for community, built on first-principles software, design, and soul.\n\nJoined by a16z General Partner Erik Torenberg, the group goes deep on:\n\n- Why Adam’s childhood shaped his obsession with community\n- Adam’s fall from WeWork—and how he found a new path to redemption\n- How Flow is re-architecting real estate from scratch\n- Why loneliness is the greatest design challenge of our time\n\nWith reflections on dyslexia, the American dream, and the thin line between failure and greatness, this is a candid and wide-ranging conversation about redemption, vision, and building something that matters in this world. We hope you enjoy this deeply human conversation about the future of living."}