over a short multi-year period, only to find in the last round that he had tapped everyone out that might be interested, and had to move out of state for the next gig.

He was kind of arrogant during the initial phases of it, and then pretty humble and regretful on the last round.

I think he confused a short-term dearth of people able to program in the relevant accounting language during the tech boom of the middle 2000s as a fast track to CEO type thing (he's not going to confuse anyone as a CEO type).