Matt RyderEx-special ops sniper turned CEO revolutionizing sales calls

I ditched my $24M/year company. Stay away from these people ($40M/year CEO)

16 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, Matt Ryder recounts his experience working at a $24 million‑a‑year company where a senior executive repeatedly made disastrous, high‑cost decisions that nearly bankrupted the business multiple times. These catastrophes forced Ryder to abandon his holidays, return to fix the fallout, and ultimately caused severe stress and PTSD, eroding his patience for family life. Despite earning a substantial salary, the relentless crisis management became unsustainable. Ryder explains that he eventually left the company, now earning even more while working only a third of the hours, highlighting a dramatic shift from high‑stress, high‑pay employment to a more balanced, lucrative role.

He would make a series of catastrophic decisions that was so comically retarded that nearly bankrupted both companies on multiple occasions.
And what was that shift of like, I need to leave this place?
I had systemized everything, but there were people that made the most retarded decisions you could imagine at senior levels. Every time I took a holiday, he would make a series of catastrophic decisions, nearly 7-figure fuck-ups. I would have to then cut my holiday short, come back in, fix everything, and doing that gave me Fully blown like fucking PTSD. For a while there, it was a different version of me taking the wheel. It was the army version. I ended up having to do so many just, like, that I just fucking was like, I can't do this anymore because it meant that I had no patience for my family. I was making great money. I make more money now, to be perfectly honest, and I work a third as much.