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Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Talanes wrote: post #418
staysafeanon wrote: post #257

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>What mission did they focus on and how did it go? RTFA: https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-comp...

If you could tell me what point you think I should be drawing from that link, it would be lovely. Because all I see is the first half devoted to the sort of generic PR speak that any company does about having an aligned vision, and the latter half is about what they're not doing. Where's the big reveal? What makes being a 'mission focused' company different than just... actually not making political statements? What…

>If you could tell me what point you think I should be drawing from that link, it would be lovely.

The point is it outlines the companies mission, as requested by the GP.

>Because all I see is the first half devoted to the sort of generic PR speak that any company does about having an aligned vision, and the latter half is about what they're not doing.

"You linked me a PR article where a company describes their mission and supplements it with supporting statements."

Yeah... No shit... that's literally what was asked for, and it's literally what I provided.

>Where's the big reveal?

The "big reveal" is the mission statement, mission scope, and business focus.

>What makes being a 'mission focused' company different than just... actually not making political statements?

Literally answered in the linked article.

>What did the big meta-political statement add to their company?

Added their mission statement and scope.

Seems like you're incapable of grasping these basic concepts. I believe you may have to be 18 to post here. Here's a better site for underage kids that may not grasp things like company mission statements: www.reddit.com

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by staysafeanon »

fullshark wrote: post #521
staysafeanon wrote: post #257

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>What mission did they focus on and how did it go? RTFA: https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-comp...

So many words until this: > Coinbase’s mission is to create an open financial system for the world. This means we want to use cryptocurrency to bring economic freedom to people all over the world. Basically sounds like “mission focused” = “do your job”

>Basically sounds like “mission focused” = “do your job”

That's fantastic! They're honest about the employment arrangement and straightforward about expectations.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by Talanes »

staysafeanon wrote: post #661
Talanes wrote: post #418

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you could tell me what point you think I should be drawing from that link, it would be lovely. Because all I see is the first half devoted to the sort of generic PR speak that any company does about having an aligned vision, and the latter half is about what they're not doing. Where's the big reveal? What makes being a 'mission focused' company different than just... actually not making political statements? What…

>If you could tell me what point you think I should be drawing from that link, it would be lovely. The point is it outlines the companies mission, as requested by the GP. >Because all I see is the first half devoted to the sort of generic PR speak that any company does about having an aligned vision, and the latter half is about what they're not doing. "You linked me a PR article where a company describes their missi…

It was clear the the GP commenter was grasping for something bigger than the actual results provided, and neither that article or your explanation of it added more depth than the Twitter thread alone did.

I don't understand why you need to attach such a large value judgement here? If the answer is "Yeah, it was mostly a PR move re-stating their existing focus" that's fine, it's not any sort of attack.

>Seems like you're incapable of grasping these basic concepts. I believe you may have to be 18 to post here. Here's a better site for underage kids that may not grasp things like company mission statements: www.reddit.com

Ahem

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by alentist »

plorg wrote: post #632
remarkEon wrote: post #564

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> I can't say that I know how every person means the things they say, but "my existence is political" is a relatively common statement… This is in fact not a common statement, and is only found in select coastal cities with high populations of people who have elite educations. More than half of the country has no idea what you’re talking about.

So have you encountered this phrase before or not? If not, why are you so confident that the person you are talking to is the exemplar of some hyperbolic, overreactive activist and not, say, someone talking about an experience you are unfamiliar with? Why do you assume there is a fixed, single meaning to a word or phrase when, simultaneously, you understand that other people may have no idea what it means?

GP said it's not a common statement, not that they haven't encountered it before.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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AgentME wrote: post #403
rafale wrote: post #300

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What if a bunch of white male employees ask the company to make s statement that their lives matter too? After all they are overrepresented in suicide statistics, drug addiction and homelessness. You now this shit will make a lot of leftists lose their mind and show up at ur company offices trying to cancel you out of existence. In a society going mad like ours, opting out of the madness like Coinbase did is the best…

"Black lives matter" is a slogan that largely refers to a desire to solve issues related to police brutality and black people. "White lives matter", as it's commonly said and understood, is merely a contrarian pushback against that desire to fix those issues. Obviously white lives do matter like others, but making a statement of something communicates something other than the literal meaning: it asserts that there's…

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Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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AgentME wrote: post #403
rafale wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if a bunch of white male employees ask the company to make s statement that their lives matter too? After all they are overrepresented in suicide statistics, drug addiction and homelessness. You now this shit will make a lot of leftists lose their mind and show up at ur company offices trying to cancel you out of existence. In a society going mad like ours, opting out of the madness like Coinbase did is the best…

"Black lives matter" is a slogan that largely refers to a desire to solve issues related to police brutality and black people. "White lives matter", as it's commonly said and understood, is merely a contrarian pushback against that desire to fix those issues. Obviously white lives do matter like others, but making a statement of something communicates something other than the literal meaning: it asserts that there's…

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Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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AgentME wrote: post #403
rafale wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if a bunch of white male employees ask the company to make s statement that their lives matter too? After all they are overrepresented in suicide statistics, drug addiction and homelessness. You now this shit will make a lot of leftists lose their mind and show up at ur company offices trying to cancel you out of existence. In a society going mad like ours, opting out of the madness like Coinbase did is the best…

"Black lives matter" is a slogan that largely refers to a desire to solve issues related to police brutality and black people. "White lives matter", as it's commonly said and understood, is merely a contrarian pushback against that desire to fix those issues. Obviously white lives do matter like others, but making a statement of something communicates something other than the literal meaning: it asserts that there's…

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Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by asabjorn »

malermeister wrote: post #658
asabjorn wrote: post #612

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Exactly. A great thing about cash is that dissenters can use it anonymously in a way that no institution can legislate unmasking the transactors. Crypto should gain that capability To expand upon your point about the greater political moment: these revolutions have never been good for the working class, because those with little power in order to gain a powerful voice need to organize into powerful interest groups us…

> A great thing about cash is that dissenters can use it anonymously in a way that no institution can legislate unmasking the transactors. Crypto should gain that capability. Replace "dissenters" with "capitalist robber barons" and "great" with "problematic" and I'm with you. >these revolutions have never been good for the working class Cuba has a higher life expectancy than the US TO THIS DAY. From 1953 to 1962 thei…

Thank you for being honest and straightforward about your communist sympathies. So many that agree with critical social justice play word games to obfuscate their radical position as a classic liberal position.

I agree that instead of the transition from a tyranny of the proletarian communist leaders, those with gnostic knowledge of communism, to communist utopia communist revolutions have a tendency to fall into feudalism. I disagree with your assertion about Cuba, your example, where the political elite and Castros family has much more access to food&resources than the people.

However, considering that communism remove all checks and balances on state power transitioning into feudalism ruled by a political elite seems like its natural outcome. I therefore disagree with your assertion that the communist process to achieve utopia could ever result in a different outcome. “Trotskyites face the wall first”, those were the communal ideologues and opportunists took over

Instead of looking back I think we should look forward and learn how to harness technology with a healthy fear in order to not “burn” ourselves again, and try something different

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by alentist »

AgentME wrote: post #410
tmule wrote: post #394

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Bunch of presumably white folk downvoting away. Sigh - utterly predictable, unfortunately. If you feel so strongly about a good world/society, please indulge in effective altruism or donate a large chunk of your money to help poor brown and black folks in the poorest nations of the world. Your signaling is useless.

This sounds like "other people have it much worse in the world, suck it up or help them instead of trying to do things you think will improve things in your own life".

This sounds like you're strawmanning the GP.

Re: 1 Year of Coinbase as a mission focused company

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Post by [deleted] »

sagichmal wrote: post #154
sergiotapia wrote: post #4

"We have a much more aligned company now, where we can focus on getting work done toward our mission. And it has allowed us to hire some of the best talent from organizations where employees are fed up with politics, infighting, and distraction." BIG takeaway. The people on your team attract similar kinds of people to your team. Good for Coinbase. Lots of good lessons here.

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

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