It's so messed up when you think about it. He made a decision (or at minimum allowed it to happen) that will most likely kill the company in the end. And he gets to profit handsomely from being fired for that bad decision.

The notion of consequences & responsibility at this level, which is often used to justify high pay (see also: the idle investor class—“oh, they deserve huge returns because of all the risk they’re taking!”) is so fake that the whole thing would be funny if people didn’t seem to think it’s actually real and meaningful.

“Oh no, I had a terrible outcome and so… me, my children, and my children’s children, at least, will continue to live among the oligarchs and attend oligarch schools and live in oligarch places and go to oligarch parties, being incredibly comfortable and wanting for nothing our whole lives.”

Please, give me those consequences. I promise it’ll make me take everything super-seriously and do a very good job. Lord knows I don’t want that to happen to me. How terrible.

All conversations with a board are possibly unpleasant, even successful moments, "why aren't you more successful."

Market economy. Bleh.

The board are just covering their own asses. I'm sure they were aligned on all the plans because the board represent the shareholders and those have super short term vision these days. It's a problem that plagues the whole industry.

Or a golden parachute that’s been slashed with a knife