I'm not going to revisit the toxicity of the current C-level and general senior "leadership". I think the fact that these are really bad people is well established. I completely get that I'm not up and privy to all the myriad business plans/models that VCs and PEs use when they acquire new companies. The "plan" at Extrahop appears to be destroy the culture, the morale, the reputation, and the product and call it lunch. Which is why you hire a guy like this CEO who has a history of doing all of the above with the help of his journeymen sycophants. When it's all scorched/salted earth, the fire sale ensues and you count your shekels and bodies while high-fiving the pyrrhic "win". Not saying the model is not rinse, wash, repeat for the predatory PE/VC world but there is only so much carrion left at which these vultures can pick. Anyway, the only hope, at this point, is for this mgmt crew to move on to the next naive victim and leave some poor schlubs to come in and resurrect what is left. If that is possible.
