The life of Adam Neumann, the billionaire WeWork founder and CEO who's about to take his company public

WeWork, now called The We Company, is gearing up for an initial public offering as soon as this week.

Its cofounder and CEO, Adam Neumann, has been at the helm of the company since it launched in 2010 and has grown it into a business last valued at $47 billion.

Here's everything you need to know about the CEO, who has five children and has purchased an estimated $80 million worth of real estate.

Adam Neumann has run WeWork from when it got its start nearly 10 years ago to now, as it gets ready for a huge IPO.

The 40-year-old Israeli-born Neumann is worth an estimated $4.1 billion, and has come a long way from the shoe-box-sized New York city apartment he first lived in in the early 2000s.

His company, last valued at $47 billion, could go public as soon as this week.

Here's everything you need to know about Adam Neumann, the WeWork cofounder and CEO: