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Agreed - but I also suspect he's been writing this letter in his head for quite some time.

I think the guy knows his statement is going to be the lede of a lot of very popular news stories.

I don't care who threw the grenade at this point, Mason jumped onto it.

It's a great letter.

Got to agree with you, tptacek. People are conveniently forgetting that so many other fired CEO's with fat bank balances have not bothered to be honest about their reasons for leaving.

This is classy.

The first grenade was waiting to be jumped on almost two years ago. Then there were more grenades every quarter.

The only thing Andrew Mason's jumping on at this point is a pile of Scrooge McDuck money.

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