SoftBank On Verge Of $500M Settlement With WeWork Founder Adam Neumann SoftBank Group and former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann, who left the company in 2019 in the wake of an IPO effort that fizzled, are in advanced talks to settle their legal quarrel. Under the terms being discussed, Neumann would receive a $500M payout from SoftBank, The Wall Street Journal reports. Bisnow/Jon Banister Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann at the Creator Awards launch in Washington, D.C., in 2017. SoftBank would pay about $1.5B to buy out the shares of all of WeWork's early investors and employees, including Neumann, the WSJ reports, citing anonymous sources. That is about half of what the company agreed to previously.