It was one of the most insightful comments in this thread. Note also he was a director, not the author's manager. That's a very different thing - he has a view

It was one of the most insightful comments in this thread. Note also he was a director, not the author's manager. That's a very different thing - he has a view of this as a strategic business decision, not as a personnel issue. I think his perspective on that adds value in understanding why the idea can simultaneously be awesome in an internal context at one highly-instrumented company and hard to market outside of that context.