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Super conspiracy theory but I wonder if Sacks saw this coming from a mile out. From Paypal he has heaps of experience with what puts you on a regulators radar. Maybe he saw a naive CEO who would land in trouble soon enough.

Zenefits is a weird mix of wall street sales types and ex Yammer employees, the former might be out the door pretty soon.

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I don't know that this is even a particularly strong conspiracy theory - when Sacks joined, A LOT of people were predicting that he would be the CEO within 12-18 months. Parker always felt like he was the wrong person to operate such a large and complex company. Great example of his immaturity here: http://www.businessinsider.com/zenefits-ceo-rescinds-job-off...

Didn't Sacks make a ton of money from the Yammer deal though? I'm surprised he even took another job; thought he'd go the mostly full time angel/VC route. A COO for any company is not a cakewalk.

And Elon made a ton of money from PayPal, yet he founded and is running two companies that are a lot more impressive than an enterprise SaaS provider. Not everyone is content to sit on the sidelines after they've hit it big.

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