[kurige]

I see it more as the simple truth. There's only so much influence you can wield working one day a week as an executive advisor. By his own admission he could have steered things better if he'd been more involved, but he didn't want to be more involved. He's got his own startup to work on.

[klabb3]

Oh yeah I was assuming we were talking about when he was actually working there. That whole consulting gig felt like a slow quit.

> By his own admission he could have steered things better if he'd been more involved

My reading is that back when he was full time, he was busy with actual product work and coding, and he could have possibly made a difference by going political, but there would have been no guarantee and it would have taken a lot of his time.