{"id":153245,"date":"2019-09-29T08:40:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T15:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=153245"},"modified":"2019-09-29T08:40:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T15:40:47","slug":"most-important-man-in-surfing-writes-down-multi-million-dollar-wavegarden-investment-to-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=153245","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMost important man in surfing\u201d writes down multi-million dollar Wavegarden investment to zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And have you been following along with the dizzying fall of WeWork\u2019s wonderfully eccentric co-founder and now ex-CEO Adam Neumann? Oooooee. Fast and furious. The Israeli-born entrepreneur was introduced to us almost a year ago by Derek Rielly, who wondered if he wasn\u2019t the \u201cmost important man in surfing.\u201d He had developed a warm friendship with Laird Hamilton, investing in his Laird Superfood non-dairy creamer and also threw near fourteen million dollars at Wavegarden\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/beachgrit.com\/2019\/09\/most-important-man-in-surfing-writes-down-multi-million-dollar-wavegarden-investment-to-zero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And have you been following along with the dizzying fall of WeWork\u2019s wonderfully eccentric co-founder and now ex-CEO Adam Neumann? Oooooee. Fast and furious. The Israeli-born entrepreneur was introduced to us almost a year ago by Derek Rielly, who wondered if he wasn\u2019t the \u201cmost important man in surfing.\u201d He had developed a warm friendship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-sports-business-news","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153246,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153245\/revisions\/153246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}