We could, and should, chalk WeWork's resilience to Mathrani. But with all of the infamy associated with Neumann's role in WeWork still swirling around in the echo chamber, it's fair to say that Mathrani's success still gets eclipsed. When Marcelo Claure left a vacant seat on WeWork's board, Bloomberg had speculated that Neumann could fill the seat, even though bringing Neumann back would create a PR nightmare. Fraser P. Seitel, one of the leading public relations experts in the U.S., had told Propmodo that getting Neumann back was a ludicrous idea. Seitel insisted that WeWork needed an influential leader on the board who could yank the company out of Neumann's shadow. Surprise surprise, it was just announced that Mathrani, Neumann's antithesis, had slipped into the seat.