Hubris of a high-flyer: how investors brought WeWork founder down to earth

Adam Neumann’s mission was to ‘elevate the world’s consciousness’. Now the office space provider he started must prove it has a futureAdam Neumann was poised to become one of the world’s richest people this year, crystallising a personal fortune of as much as $14bn (£11.3bn) from the flotation of WeWork, the shared working space company he co-founded with a mission to become “the world’s first physical social network”.But in a bruising fortni