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Old Aug 29, 2016, 4:14 pm
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Originally Posted by JonNYC
That's definitely one of the theories going around, but I'm finding more people who view this as pretty forced ejection and not something that everyone just agreed to-- most specifically Mr. Kirby himself.

But him having landed so successfully elsewhere does make it kinda interesting.
It is most possible that Mr Kirby and the C suite haven't been seeing to eye to eye for a while. When things start going sideways, you start talking more to folks in your network, and then boom... all that is left is to send the "leaving to pursuit a new opportunity immediately and we thank him for all of his efforts" email.
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