From Starbucks and Intel to Petco and Astronomer: top CEOs are getting replaced at record rates. And the costs of these ousters can spiral quickly, dinging a company’s stock price and costing us all in surprising ways in the process. 

On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg’s management and work reporter Matthew Boyle joins host Sarah Holder to dig into the often murky, always steep cost of a CEO ouster.

Read more: The True Cost of Firing a CEO

From Starbucks and Intel to Petco and Astronomer: top CEOs are getting replaced at record rates. And the costs of these ousters can spiral quickly, dinging a company&rsquo;s stock price and costing us all in surprising ways in the process.&nbsp;
On today&rsquo;s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg&rsquo;s management and work reporter Matthew Boyle joins host Sarah Holder to dig into the often murky, always steep cost of a CEO ouster.
Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-cost-firing-ceo/?srnd=homepage-americas">The True Cost of Firing a CEO</a>

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What Does It Cost to Replace a CEO?

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