I doubt that this call and the exchange that we're shown is all that there's to it. Having said that, if you're on a conference call and you say such a thing without context, you can expect it to get interpreted in ways it might not have been meant.
I jumped into another thread and said this already - the guy that was fired was responsible for a poor UX that was hated amongst all and ended up failing.
So that was fun. I guess I'll move on to the next contextless story.