WeWork's Adam Neumann voted to oust himself as CEO after failed IPO, sources say

Jackal Pan / Getty When WeWork's directors voted to oust Adam Neumann as CEO after a failed attempt to take the office-sharing startup public, Neumann cast his vote against himself, according to three people familiar with the situation. The vote by Neumann, who remains non-executive chairman but gave up majority control of the company he co-founded, was the culmination of a stunning coup to remove him led by his biggest backer, Masayoshi Son, the billionaire CEO of SoftBank. Neumann did not resp...