Billionaire Claure Forges New Empire After WeWork Collapse

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.

Claure was dispatched in 2019 by his SoftBank Group Corp. boss Masayoshi Son to stabilize the real estate company after it yanked its initial public offering amid a ...