Billionaire Claure Forges New Empire After WeWork Collapse
- Marcelo Claure’s family office owns stakes in Shein, Girona FC
- Claure says Adam Neumann called him about latest WeWork bid
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Marcelo Claure’s resume is jam-packed with successes: founding a multinational mobile phone distributor, pulling off the complex merger of Sprint and T-Mobile and helping shepherd the fairytale run of Spanish soccer club Girona, to name a few.
So it irks the 53-year-old Bolivian-American billionaire that in the public consciousness he’s probably best known for his links to WeWork Cos., the startup that imploded spectacularly after once being valued at $47 billion.