[Traster]

So your theory is that he spent a decade at a company, that grew more than 10x over that time, and got consistently promoted into senior leadership as a cynical ploy to gather ammunition to attack the company he spent a decade working at, and then manufactured a reason to get fired as a political stunt?

[vjktyu]

His plan was to get into big politics and an exec role was a way to find his campaign. 10 years is a totally believable planning horizon. I doubt he cares much about the petty issues with his former boss, but I'm sure he'll flex on them in the future.