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FTA: "Marakby’s departure comes not too long after Uber lost its head of comms, president, head of AI Labs, VP of growth and SVP of engineering."

This feels like one of those things that's going to keep snowballing.

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Does anyone have data on the departure of executives at other companies, past or present? Of course the reaction is that this is something like an exodus, but I would love to see data on exec-churn at similarly sized companies for comparison's sake.

I don't think there's a public dataset for this, but would be a fun project for someone to crawl and figure out a number.

My best offer is here Yahoo. Just before and after the announcement of acquisition, there was a bleeding of top executives from Yahoo.

Maybe Enron in their final years?

The thing is: they have an obscene amount of capital just to keep their narrative alive. Sunk cost fallacy is not a concept that exists in the world of their investors.

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