Justin Zhu said he was fired as CEO of the software company he co-founded in 2013, Iterable, because he took LSD at work before a meeting in 2019The CEO and co-founder of the burgeoning marketing startup Iterable Inc has been fired for reportedly taking LSD at work to boost his focus. The letter did not specify why Zhu was being ousted, only saying that he violated company policy, but the fired CEO claimed his termination was due to his LSD consumption. LSD, or Lysergic acid diethylamide, is a powerful hallucinogenic drug that was first created in a lab in 1938. Zhu, a Twitter alum, co-founded Iterable with Andrew Boni, previously of Google, in 2013. Nearly eight years after Zhu and Boni started Iterable, the company now employs some 400 staffers.

Source: Daily Mail April 27, 2021 17:17 UTC