>>56469000Most likely finance-driven. I've seen multiple companies I worked at sabotage their best teams and products because helping fund them or allowing them to continue business as usual was counter to some reallocation that was "predicted" to produce a higher yield. Private equity regularly runs this way, where people look at a business doing well, and all they see is a pool of money. They don't give a hoot what the business has been doing so far, they just know there's now more money to be reinvested somehow, and the board members usually think along the lines of
>we should hire a bunch of new people that will make the business drastically better... somehow! Let's get a bunch of new C-level people in here!>we should pivot to some totally new business model that could make MORE money!>we should take the people from our existing team that is doing well and have them all be on different teams that don't currently run well, so they can lead those teams to run better!All obviously terrible ideas to anyone that has actually been a worker bee, or someone that is even remotely risk-averse, or someone that prioritizes the continued stability of the company and people's jobs over potential extra profits. Investors are none of these things, otherwise they would not be investors on the board. They seek risk, which is why they are there in the first place. They don't care about the workers because they would be running their own stable business if they gave a shit and not speculatively investing in someone else's thing. And they don't know these ideas won't work because most of them have never actually done any real productive labor for any meaningful amount of time.
