Pros
A team of brilliant engineers and staff (less the c-suite and “leadership” team). People who truly care about about the impact their work makes on the world.
Cons
The CEO is the dark triad disguised as performative altruism. A wolf in sheep’s clothes. He lacks the empathy, kindness, and compassion that all great leaders share. Don’t be fooled by the seemingly grand mission to decarbonize aviation. The mission is only as grand as the headlines he wants to be written about him. He doesn’t care about the planet, let alone the people, anyway. Let the other recent reviews corroborate that. He’s created a venture-bank-rolled schoolyard playground to bully his peers and staff. An emotionally stunted child in adult’s clothes. Worse is, the more money he raises, and the more news articles written about him, the more vile he gets. Neither humble nor grateful to those who contributed to the company’s and his success, the CEO grows more power hungry and acts awful to those around him. Like the archetype of every movie villain. He’s that guy. We hate that guy. Do not trust that guy. And for the love of god, stop giving money to that guy. The only things written about him from now on should be about how he fumbled a beautiful opportunity to change the world because his blinding pride consumed him. A tale as old as time. Like the great Maya Angelou once said, “when people show you who they are, believe them.”