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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.