Imagine for a moment that Adam Neumann, the co-founder of WeWork and until several days ago its chief executive, came to you looking for a job. He is barefoot (he has been photographed walking around Manhattan this way), he talks about his ambition to live forever, to lead the free world and to “solve the problem” of “150 million orphans” through the growth of a desk-rental company seeking to “to elevate the world’s consciousness.”