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I find it weird how the co-founders were fired or basically forced to resign. Shouldn't they be the ones with the most power?

• ganoushoreilly 6y ago
  When external funding is involved and there are determined parties, things will happen. It happens all too often.
• toyg 6y ago
  When they took the investor’s money, Greenwald and Poitras both explicitly decided to focus almost exclusively on their jobs rather than becoming media execs; they weren’t their own boss as much as they had an arrangement where the boss would never speak. Obviously that was a strategic mistake on their part, in hindsight, but there is no proof they would have been good managers anyway. I guess they underestimated how quickly a well can be poisoned by just a few individuals, once steering is agreed up top.