Based on the accounts that are now coming out, the guy had been living in a fantasy world for some time. He was probably happy to stay at Zappos as long as it

Based on the accounts that are now coming out, the guy had been living in a fantasy world for some time. He was probably happy to stay at Zappos as long as it made him feel good. He didn't actually need to be good at business anymore because Amazon was running the show. After leaving, he decamped to Park City and paid former colleagues to join him there, to continue the party, because that is what Zappos leadership had become by that point: a party free from the daily duties and concerns of running a company that needed to succeed in the market in order to survive.