View CEO Rao Mulpuri, who saw the glassmaker go from investor darling to declaring bankruptcy, has resigned

• The SoftBank-backed glassmaker View filed for bankruptcy in April, three years after its SPAC merger.
• CEO Rao Mulpuri has stepped down from View, which was taken private by two investors.
• Insiders told BI he had a magic touch with investors but that staff lived in fear of being fired.

Five months after the glassmaker View filed for bankruptcy, CEO Rao Mulpuri has stepped down. Under his tenure, View raised $1.1 billion from SoftBank in 2018 and went public in 2021. It struggled as a public company and ran low on cash several times before declaring bankruptcy in April.