When TreeHouse first launched I traded a series of emails with Ryan. He seemed to me to be a nice, genuine guy. He'd already had success as an entrepreneur, h

When TreeHouse first launched I traded a series of emails with Ryan. He seemed to me to be a nice, genuine guy. He'd already had success as an entrepreneur, he never needed to ever work again. Yet he challenged himself to build something much bigger that stood a chance to change the world. Sometimes it just doesn't work out. His actions at the end indicate to me that he was just burned out. But in my opinion he should have announced the firings himself no matter how painful and quit a few months earlier when he could have paid severance, no excuse for that.