As with many things, I blame crypto. The fact that Atari was able to get a huge stock price bump announcing two stupid cryptocurrencies gave executives some very bad ideas about how just saying “we too are doing the next big thing” could make their RSU’s worth way more with no downside for them.
C-suites have always made bafflingly dumb choices about implementing new tech, but it does feel like executives are making those dumb choices at a much faster, more dangerous rates nowadays
