I saw this first hand: company hired a "killer CEO" from a non-tech firm based on the boards insistence, he brought along his CFO. A year in, the company almos

I saw this first hand: company hired a "killer CEO" from a non-tech firm based on the boards insistence, he brought along his CFO. A year in, the company almost died and had to raise an emergency round. The CEO took off w/ a huge amount of equity and, meanwhile, the CFO had completely screwed the books up. All very funny. In retrospect.