Meet Rebekah Paltrow Neumann, the former actress who cofounded WeWork and is cousins with Gwyneth Paltrow

WeWork

Neumann is responsible for WeWork's focus on wellness, per Fast Company.

• Rebekah Paltrow Neumann cofounded WeWork in 2010 alongside her now-husband Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey.
• Paltrow Neumann is the CEO of WeGrow, a private primary school run by the coworking space company, according to the school's website.
• The couple has a net worth of $4.1 billion, according to Forbes.
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Rebekah Paltrow Neumann once wanted to be an actress, she told Fast Company. Later, she became a certified yoga instructor.

Instead, she became the Chief Brand and Impact Officer of the We Company, which just filed its S-1.

Paltrow Neumann cofounded the company, originally known by its most famous business, WeWork, alongside her now-husband Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey in 2010. She was also an early employee at the first coworking company Adam and McKelvey founded, Greendesk, according to Fast Company.

Read more: Before he was a billionaire, WeWork CEO Adam Neumann was broke. Here's the NYC building where he and his wife lived in a tiny apartment before he built a $47 billion company

Ahead of the We Company's impending IPO, Paltrow Neumann has turned her attention to WeGrow, the private primary school run by the company.

Neumann declined to comment through a WeWork spokesperson.

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