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Mitchell, one of the co founders, left HashiCorp in December 2023 [1]

It’s either terrible timing (missed on more money?) or he knew about it and decided months in advance that it’s not worth the trouble of staying on (ie, look at the aftermath of the RedHat and IBM acquisition).

[1] https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-reflects-as-he-depar...

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Or possibly it’s completely unrelated and it’s just our brains looking for meaning where there’s none.

If his leaving is unrelated, that would fall under the first possibility of the parent comment, no?

Only if he really cared about that extra bit of money. I don't know him personally but from the outside he didn't look like he did.

It's not unrelated. They kicked him out or he just got sick of the company's direction. Or both.

Not a coincidence at all.

he transitioned to IC way before he left

What's the aftermath of the Red Hat and IBM acquisition? I've been at Red Hat since 2009 myself, and have hardly seen the difference over the last five years.

We all know it's just made up stuff to feed the narrative of evil IBM making RH evil. Not even the plausible scenario of IBM changing the source code licencing of hashicorp software back to something genuinely open can change people's minds.

I don't think Mitchell has any shares still. At least I could not find him listed on insider transactions. He made billion with B when it went IPO and most likely cashed out near the top which coincidentally is when I bought (facepalm).

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