irrelevant. he knew what he was talking about. and the shit done to him, the playbook used to take advantage of him and subsequently isolate him, was, in my opinion/observation, done to a decent number of people.

I also have an "I should have left" moment at a startup. It was a month in, when one of the folks with influence told me "I enjoy pitting people against each other." No lies were detected in this statement.