He’s the CEO of a billion-dollar company and this is his classy resignment announcement. It’s quite telling, being a man, he was never asked the question that made him step down once he asked it himself.

From Weekly Filet #172, in August 2014.

Why I am leaving the best job I ever had

Max Schireson

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