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1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by civilized »

gwelson wrote: post #252

The thing I hate about this line of thinking is the supposed "distractions" of being mission-focused are nearly all related simply to basic rights/dignities for marginalized groups. I don't think anyone is saying companies need to take a strong stance on every political issue, but merely saying "we as a company believe the lives of our Black employees matter" or "we as a company welcome and accept our LGBTQ+ employee…

Basecamp's angry worker faction was demanding the company apologize for contributing to a white supremacist, genocidal culture... because some customer service folks had a funny customer name list that included names from all backgrounds.

That had absolutely nothing to do with basic dignity for marginalized groups. It was simply a grab for power and status. One of many. We who have been watching are very familiar with the game.

The framing of it as merely about basic dignity is deeply disingenuous, but is itself familiar and another part of the game. What about the dignity of customer service workers? Is it upholding their dignity to frivolously condemn them for a mildly immature in-joke that showed no racial bias and harmed no one?

Some of us, you will find, are not so easily played for fools.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by Jensson »

poszlem wrote: post #290

In the perfect world people would just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and went on their merry way if they didn't agree with Coinbase. The reason why there is so much vitriol in the comments here is that to some people there is nothing more scary than a prospect of companies realising that doing social activism can be really TERRIBLE to their bottom line and it IS POSSIBLE to have a nice, friendly, healthy company without going full woke.

The woke biggest fear is that people realize that only about 5-10% are woke so you can ignore them without much consequences no matter how much of a fuzz they make on twitter.

They try to make a fuzz here at HN as well but just like the real world they aren't the majority here either.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by sagichmal »

staysafeanon wrote: post #275
sagichmal wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Friends in engineering at Coinbase?

Not a source. I have friends in engineering at Coinbase. They've doubled their engineering team and development has skyrocketed.

(laughs)

OK dude.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by imgabe »

vkou wrote: post #295
chairmanwow1 wrote: post #16

Love that Armstrong did this at Coinbase. I want to work at work, not worry about the political opinions of my coworkers.

It must be nice to have the privilege to not need to worry about the political opinions of your coworkers. I take it most people don't see your existence, as you are, as a political problem?

If any of your coworkers have threatened to stop you from existing you should call the police.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by poszlem »

Jensson wrote: post #312
poszlem wrote: post #290

In the perfect world people would just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and went on their merry way if they didn't agree with Coinbase. The reason why there is so much vitriol in the comments here is that to some people there is nothing more scary than a prospect of companies realising that doing social activism can be really TERRIBLE to their bottom line and it IS POSSIBLE to have a nice, friendly, healthy company without going full woke.

The woke biggest fear is that people realize that only about 5-10% are woke so you can ignore them without much consequences no matter how much of a fuzz they make on twitter. They try to make a fuzz here at HN as well but just like the real world they aren't the majority here either.

This is quite disturbing, see all those accounts created 30 minutes ago:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fancifulfiend

- https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=workersrights

- https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tesselator

I wonder what's going on with HN moderation.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by sagichmal »

Jensson wrote: post #244
sagichmal wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not sure why you think people who care about justice draw that energy from the same pool that motivates their work, as if it’s a zero-sum calculus. It isn’t. People who think about things systemically tend to apply that perspective in all of their practices. And that’s the value.

The problem is when people who care about justice harasses co-workers because those co-workers doesn't care as much about justice. That has a very negative effect on those co-workers regardless if this has a negative effect on the harasser.

I'm not sure why you think people who care about justice harass coworkers as a matter of course. It's strictly the opposite, in my (considerable) experience.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by sagichmal »

staysafeanon wrote: post #271
sagichmal wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They lost almost half of their engineering team. Product development has almost stalled. I dunno, man.

You're thinking of Basecamp, not Coinbase.

No, I don't know anyone at Basecamp.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by throw_m239339 »

greenie_beans wrote: post #172
ryan93 wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whats political about using coinbase to buy and sell bitcoin?

crypto is political

> crypto is political

Crypto isn't partisan. It's not beholden to the democratic or the republican party. Saying "something is political" is meaningless.

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