[judk]

With 15 years under his belt, someone might have noticed if he had trouble separating work from politics. Perhaps his talent in this area is related to how he earn the CEO job over others who are incapable of conducting civil interactions with people they disagree with on unrelated matters.

[shibby]

And perhaps being the inventor of Javascript and CTO of Mozilla helped it go 'unnoticed' or unchallenged.