But when SoftBank agreed to buy $3 billion worth of shares in WeWork from stockholders as part of its multibillion-dollar buyout of the struggling coworking company, its offer included more than $1 billion for Neumann. Through his stock sales, cash settlement payments and exit deal, Bloomberg estimated that Neumann pulled out more than $2.1 billion from WeWork during his tenure, even as the company lost more than $11 billion.