One way to avoid making mistakes like this would be to run your big ideas by a handful of average users of your product. Take the information that will be in t

One way to avoid making mistakes like this would be to run your big ideas by a handful of average users of your product. Take the information that will be in the eventual announcement, show it to 10 users, and ask for their feedback. Better yet, have a panel of trusted users that advise you. The reality is, pretty much anyone could have told you this was a bad idea, and that should suggest a process that involves asking someone, and listening to the answer. It's a certainty that people within Triplebyte knew this was a bad idea, and may have even said so. I'm sorry to say that most CEOs I've worked under don't really believe anything that didn't come from a business book or their own brain. Anything else is just one poor idiot's opinion. There are many truths known by the team at large, discussed over lunch and around the water cooler on a daily basis, that the CEO has heard before, but just isn't interested in taking seriously.