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		m463 on Jan 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CTO day 2: downsizing the team He was told to downsize, which means there's someone above him not owning it.

jacquesm on Jan 10, 2021 [–]

Yes, that was the bigger failure here. The CEO is clearly incapable as well, but that was more or less a given taking the context communicated in the article into account. No CEO would farm out their responsibility like this. At best he would have asked the new CTO for some input.

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