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View submission: Kn0thlng Admits He was Behind Vlctoria's Termination: Was E|len a Patsy?
**It was my decision to change how we work with AMAs** and the transition was my failure and I hope we can keep moving forward from that lesson.
Kn0thing is the Chairman of the Board at reddit. That is a position *above* CEO, and *certainly* above the position of *interim CEO.*
Ellen remains with reddit and probably got a nice severance package to go along with it. As far as we know, she had nothing to do with any of the decisions we protested.
Comment by EtherMan at 13/07/2015 at 02:21 UTC
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That's not entirely correct. The board as a whole, is above the CEO, and even that, is quite limited. No single individual on the board is above the CEO. So no, that argument doesn't really work. It's still a case of either she was powerless, in which case she shouldn't have been made CEO in the first place, or, she decided it. Most likely, kn0thing requested it, but it's still her decision.
Comment by [deleted] at 13/07/2015 at 00:35 UTC
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You're kidding right? Just because KnOthing made the ultimate decision to can Victoria does NOT mean Ellen Pao was not totally on board with that and signed off on that. KnOthing did not make the decision to fire the most loved redditor in history without a lot of people inside reddit knowing. Pao's fired plenty of people before that and is in fact known for that particular skill. You are misinformed.
Comment by Stuck_In_the_Matrix at 13/07/2015 at 06:17 UTC
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The Chairman of the Board is not "above" the CEO at all. The CEO if the "chief executive officer" meaning that he or she is responsible for the general direction of the company and executing on that agenda. The Chairman of the Board, while still a very prestigious position, in and of itself cannot generally remove the CEO without participating in a vote. The board as a whole, when acting in unison, can be more powerful than the CEO -- but the board is mainly engaged in stakeholder relations and increasing the overall value of the company. The CEO is responsible for executing on those goals.