We had a CEO who would sign up just about anyone as a customer. He nearly destroyed the company a few years before I joined by underbidding on a contract that t

We had a CEO who would sign up just about anyone as a customer. He nearly destroyed the company a few years before I joined by underbidding on a contract that they were completely unqualified to fulfill. Software failed and people died (a government inquiry was scathing about the company's unsuitability for the contract but did ultimately exonerate them w.r.t. the fatalities). Lessons were not learned.