Commentary
Two weeks ago, Project Veritas generated global headlines by exposing a Pfizer employee who claimed that the company was allegedly exploring plans to mutate the coronavirus themselves through “directed evolution” and profit from it. This week, Veritas is again on the front pages, this time for a very public, board-level fracas resulting in the unceremonious departure of Veritas’s dynamic founder CEO James O’Keefe.
Watching this drama play out, one question at the top of everyone’s mind is whether Veritas can survive without O’Keefe. As researchers in corporate governance and strategy, we have analyzed large datasets on founder CEO exits as well as written individual case studies on the subject. In our judgment, O’Keefe’s departure will effectively end Project Veritas….