Perhaps the greater context is "Luckily we retained the essential founders and despite what the new CEO did we went public and everyone succeeded in the short term".
There seems to be a very important detail missing from the story. How good was the CEO and how vital was he in getting the company public and the making the founders and ton of cash? Sometimes those hired CEOs actually do work hard and more than earn their paycheck.
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Anticipating a downvote on this one, but someone has to say it . . .
Almost as an aside, he mentions "Luckily the company did go public". That's not an aside, that's the punchline.
An alternative way of summarizing the anecdote would be:
"I had an encounter with a dickish VC, but with his help I had an exit for tens of millions of dollars, so I'm not holding any grudges."
You're reading too much into the aside.
Perhaps the greater context is "Luckily we retained the essential founders and despite what the new CEO did we went public and everyone succeeded in the short term".
There seems to be a very important detail missing from the story. How good was the CEO and how vital was he in getting the company public and the making the founders and ton of cash? Sometimes those hired CEOs actually do work hard and more than earn their paycheck.