That was an excellent article. One of the best that I have read recently about company management. Of course to get the full impact you need to do a lot of read

That was an excellent article. One of the best that I have read recently about company management. Of course to get the full impact you need to do a lot of reading between the lines, but Ben does us the favor of leaving some broad hints. This really does have the flavor of a manager skillfully navigating the business through shark-infested waters, and IMHO, that is exactly the job of senior management. Including CTOs. While a CTO may not have direct responsibility for legal and accounting issues, they need to be fully aware of what their colleagues are up to, because, as Ben pointed out, another executive might be subverting the law in pursuit of some number. If that is happening and the CTO does not notice it and call their colleagues on that type of behavior then the CTO is complicit and will at minimum get fired, and could even go to jail. Taking public money in any form, comes with obligations to play fair, and however much you may disagree with the laws or the people who made those laws, they are the current standard for whether or not someone is playing fair.