Braden Wallake
publication date: Sunday, August 28, 2022 (part of Summer 2022)
category: 
Controversy
clue: This CEO may have been a little too revealing about his feelings in his Social media post about laying off staff.
explanation: Wallake, the CEO of HyperSocial, was both praised and criticized for a LinkedIn post in which he photographed himself crying over layoffs, intending to show that he truly cared about the people affected. more…
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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