Founders, and CEOs for that matter, who are truly off the rails likely didn't heed any good information they were getting. Absorbing is one strategy for the strong-backed advisor, an intervention is another. Advisors can use the ignored info and also bring fresh data insights into play.

And chances are many "retired" are not actual people.

Congrats! Meta users will not like this, but I suspect that the complaints will be more diffuse than the user backlash that quashed Horizon Worlds ambitions. The lesson learned, I suspect, is roll out without over-hyping.

Here is my question: Media, using your research, report 80 000 tonnes are deposited each year on French roads. But your report puts the number at 50 000 tonnes. Why the difference?