Ditto. The same thing happened to me a few companies back. I lead a data science team of two solving difficult problems that would determine the company's suc

Ditto. The same thing happened to me a few companies back. I lead a data science team of two solving difficult problems that would determine the company's success. However, management was the type to be uncomfortable with ignorance so they had to pretend to know data science and demand tasks be solved a certain way, which for anyone who has any familiar experience has already guessed it: what they were pushing made no sense. So, I switched from predictive analytics and put on my prescriptive analytics hat. Over the time I was there I created several presentations containing multiple paths forward letting management feel like they were deciding the path forward. This continued until I was fired. The board didn't like that I wasn't using a neural nets to solve the companies problems. Startups often do not have enough labeled data, so DNNs were not considered. Oddly, I didn't get a warning or a request about this before being let go. I suspect management got tired of me managing upward. In response my coworker quit right then and there and took me out to lunch. ^_^