I’m sad for the company and shocked at the things that appear to have been done. My third reaction is that it lifts the veil on the dysfunction that existed in the boardroom at the end of my tenure.
I asked direct questions and I expected direct answers. And when it was clear that I was not getting direct answers, my next step was to ask our outside counsel to have a conversation with each one of them. Our outside counsel gave a report to everyone in the boardroom and said there were clearly at least two people who talked to the press; only one confessed, Tom Perkins. The reality is that everyone knew [Keyworth] had leaked and I was planning to do something about it, but they did something about me first!
Never heard the word until I read it in the newspaper.
I do.
My firing was not about performance. So I can only conclude it was about a set of personal agendas and dysfunction.
