I don't agree with the optimal path of The HiPPO War. The founder very explicitly said he thinks shipping the current user experience is Bad™, that he'd rather loose the 50k in ads. It doesn't make sense that he would accept shipping it anyway because "We can ship a 'Soul' update" later.

Also, you're commiting the team to deliver something you (probably) don't have the technical knowledge to estimate, so you might be adding another week of death March after just 1 weekend.

The lesson at the end is not wrong, but the characters don't seem realistic.

That said, I have always been IC for a reason, so what do I know.