>There is a plausible explanation for all this: the VCs shed their stock-holdings on the same day SolarWinds' long-standing CEO resigned.
>The software house announced in August that Kevin Thompson would leave the company though it didn’t give a date. Thompson reportedly quit on Monday, December 7 – news that was not made public – and a new CEO was formally announced two days later, on December 9, the day after FireEye went public on December 8 with details of the intrusion into its own systems.
Why would a VC wait until the CEO resigns to dump their stock, if they already knew that he was leaving? Wouldn't it make more sense to slowly dump it over several weeks/months so you don't move the market? The "plausible explanation" sounds like a convenient excuse, imo.
>The software house announced in August that Kevin Thompson would leave the company though it didn’t give a date. Thompson reportedly quit on Monday, December 7 – news that was not made public – and a new CEO was formally announced two days later, on December 9, the day after FireEye went public on December 8 with details of the intrusion into its own systems.
Why would a VC wait until the CEO resigns to dump their stock, if they already knew that he was leaving? Wouldn't it make more sense to slowly dump it over several weeks/months so you don't move the market? The "plausible explanation" sounds like a convenient excuse, imo.