Maybe I'm just an asshole, but if I were involved in Color and my CEO has been vacationing for two months while we struggle with product failure... I'd say something fairly similar to his face (if he showed his face in the office, anyhow).
> "Do you really want people lining up to mock you the next time you invest a chunk of your life into a project and it goes south?"
Nobody is picking on him because of Color's product failure. Not even the TechCrunch article. People are picking on him because he's vacationing while his company flounders.
I don't know enough about this guy's life to tell whether or not this is the right call for him personally, but I don't think it takes a rocket surgeon to figure that this is really bad for the company and its employees.
Your comment assumes he's actually just on vacation and not that he was forced (or significantly nudged) out. I'd put my money on the latter. That he wrote a mail saying, "Everything's fine, this is totally normal..." in a time of (probable) crisis speaks very little to actual structure of events.
So we should be second guessing his own quotes (assuming they're accurate)? "I do this historically. I take off for a little while and I vacation. It’s nothing new or exciting,"
From my point of view, a guy who's not been in the office for two months, who takes a phone call from a journalist while boarding a plane to Maui, doesn't sound like he's being 'forced' to do anything.
> "Do you really want people lining up to mock you the next time you invest a chunk of your life into a project and it goes south?"
Nobody is picking on him because of Color's product failure. Not even the TechCrunch article. People are picking on him because he's vacationing while his company flounders.
I don't know enough about this guy's life to tell whether or not this is the right call for him personally, but I don't think it takes a rocket surgeon to figure that this is really bad for the company and its employees.