> To be clear, this company paid me an absurd amount of money to come in and help them reorganize. They paid me so much that afterwards I was able to take a one

> To be clear, this company paid me an absurd amount of money to come in and help them reorganize. They paid me so much that afterwards I was able to take a one year vacation, to sit out the rest of the pandemic and focus on personal projects. The real problem here is that the CEO and CTO were unable to marshal the resources of the company to address core business problems and they consequently wasted a lot of money on an outside consultant. That's low competence. The CEO and the CTO should both be sacked.