By morning, the three board members named in Sophia's video had lawyered up. By afternoon, two of them had issued public statements that managed simultaneously to deny everything and explain nothing. By evening, Damian Voss had fired all seven remaining members of his board in a single press release that was eleven lines long and contained no adjectives, which somehow made it more devastating than if it had contained many.
The financial press went quiet for about six hours — the particular silence of people recalibrating — and then came back louder than before. The consensus shifted. Where a month ago the story had been CEO's wife walks out after affair, it was now something considerably more complicated, and the complication was making it a much better story. Lila's name trended for the
