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It is standard resignation speak. It’s the same thing I told HR to tell my team when I decided it was time to leave, because it is what everyone else says when they resign.

I left due to burnout and failed negotiations. I did share the burnout with my team individually.

I will disagree with this, this is a completion of a P&L merger, a golden parachute some know it as, Gus also recently left.

perfect opportunity to spend some time with the family, though

Perhaps. However, I do find it slightly 'off' that his departure is announced in the form of an article, and not a personal statement in which he would have more or less unavoidably had to have elaborated on the reasons for choosing this moment to depart.

At least in my personal experience, when this happens to a senior leader it's usually because they had been informed by others that they WOULD be resigning.

Exactly.

> a high schooler in the mid‑1980s

Seems like a good time to spend with family to me.