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by Nelson69 2647 days ago
There is nothing new here, if you piss off someone that is wealthy and they have vendetta, and you're not wealthy, they can make your life difficult. Whistle blowers take huge risks. Now we can talk about if that's the way we want to world to be or not, but right now rich people can threaten poor people with lawsuits and get their way a remarkable amount of the time.

Are we letting the board off pretty easily? We expect wage earners to potentially out their corrupt company and take the risks associated with it, but if you sit on the board and the unicorn valuation is big enough then we just wave off the fact that they never asked those questions either. No CEO wants a board that get's in the way but we give them a pass just because the valuation was big? That doesn't seem quite right either.

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have a look at the board, and you might answer your own question