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and he's also getting a nice return on his angel investment in tellapart . . . which twitter acquired a month ago for $.5 Billion.

That sounds a bit sketchy, did no one call him out for that?

"Conflict of interest" is not a phrase found in the Silicon Valley dialect of English

Usually this is structured in a way that it's 100% legally safe like in: "I was not part of the decision (but people who highly depend on me were)"