Some investors have decided that the best returns come from companies that have CEO's/leaders that run them like sole proprietorships. This works best when the

Some investors have decided that the best returns come from companies that have CEO's/leaders that run them like sole proprietorships. This works best when the CEO is actually the founder of the company. Investors with this philosophy would like to have that person have majority ownership of the company, but this rarely (never?) financially possible. Some companies have stock step ups that let the founder(s) keep voting control even though they don't have the majority of the stock. Google, Facebook, and Snap are some companies like this. Other very successful companies that have/had a single person that basically runs the whole place as their own company are Berkshire Hathaway, Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon. The top five American companies by market cap are of this type. I would not say the this is such a bad thing as these people are looking out for the companies long term future. Compare HP before and after the founders left. Hewitt and Packard would not have focused the company around the evil idea building disposable printers that lock people into overpriced ink purchases. If society needs these huge corporations (maybe we would better of with out them?), I would much rather they be run by a single human than be a soulless bureaucracy with a figurehead at the top. If Neumann fully owned WeWork, it would not be corrupt self enrichment to own the properties, just vertical integration. If the investors want them to work this way, is it really corrupt? I wouldn't think so.