Terminated for cause means, among other things, that he forfeited the unvested portion of everything he had, which was substantial, and that the company’s insurers declined to cover his defense.

The company itself survived.

I want to be clear about that, because there is a version of this that people prefer in which I burned it down, and I did not, and I would not have.

Vextor Dynamics is still trading.

It has a chief executive named Anneke Vorster who came in from a competitor in January and who is, by every account I have, considerably better at running it than my ex-husband was.

It shed about a third of its valuation in the eighteen months following and has recovered most of that.