Pros
Everyone aside from Leadership is suffering so you form close bonds based on the mutual struggle.
Cons
It's a classic story, really...Outcast founder receives VC funding - gets highlights and becomes obsessed with all the attention he never got only to drain company funds to keep that alive. Every company decision is based on emotion and the peter-pan syndrome of the CEO who will never be the visionary he desperately wants to prove to everyone he is. When you have a leadership team full of yes people and quickly let go of anyone who dares to value reason or common sense that mentality trickles down into the team and unfortunately results in peoples suffering to pay for the reckless decisions made by an irresponsible executive team. Why spend 1M on a retreat in October and lay people off in January using the economic downturn as cause when the economy was just as bad in October. Why spend millions to acquire additional companies when you haven't properly integrated the company you acquired a year ago? It's all politics and wannabes. No one with integrity and an actual spine would stand for such a lack of regard for decency. Not to mention the product, which has been stagnant since 2018, can't compete with what competitors are providing.