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I'm really happy for her. Worst CEO has typically been a male dominated category. It's nice see some diversity in lacking empathy and having over inflated egos.
“Who is Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos)?” She is the definite leader in the category of callous CEOs.
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Without the CEO there wouldn't be any cookies. It's not hypothetical look at countries with plenty of "flour, eggs, baking soda" and no "recipe".
Yep, every time a CEO goes on vacation they just shut the company down until they return. Bezos must be exhausted programming amazon.com and personally delivering every package.
Were it not for Besos there would be no amazon.
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There was also Meg Whitman who ran multiple companies into the ground
CEO of Quibi should earn a lifetime achievement award in lighting money on fire.
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PagerDuty engineer here. PagerDuty is not a messaging platform. You are correct that there are free products that can schedule people and send them messages, and with some elegant baling wire and duct tape, anyone can put together something that looks like a notification service. But ask yourself this: PD has competitors that provide messaging and schedules and cost less than PD. So even if they aren't free, why are…
This post makes me want to check out your competitors. (Unfortunately, I know one of them, and I like y'all better than them.) Yes … when the sales are wheeled and dealed there's enough Enterprise-grade bullshit shoveled about for me to start a fertilizer business. But that's not a.) what I care about as an engineer who has to use PagerDuty, and b.) time and again, I think we see upstart competitors whose products is…
At the risk of an appeal to authority, I have been in the enterprise technology business since the late 1980s. I have held position in sales and marketing before my current career in engineering. In engineering I have had roles on both the IC ladder (I am currently a Principal Engineer) and the management ladder (topping out as a Director of Engineering).
I don't regard this as a game we play for the purpose of bamboozling stupid customers into overpaying for software. I think that's a remarkably poor perspective on how business works, very similar in my mind to calling all Apple users "fanbois." It's a way of dismissing a large and complex equation that encompasses complex organizations, individuals within those organizations, various tradeoffs and aggregations of value, and so on and so forth.
Reducing it to a simplistic take that it's all about marketing bullshit is low-effort and contributes nothing to anyone who wants to enter this space or survive if the economics of what they build indicates--as it did with companies like DropBox and 1Password--that they need to pivot to enterprise.
Everything you are saying that drips with contempt for enterprise SaaS business, is also expressing contempt for their customers. I do not hold our customers or those who buy from our competitors in contempt, I admire them all: They have built businesses that advance technology, grow our economies, and employ people (modulo the current climate for employment).
If you want to model the world as companies picking products with a dart toss, that's your business. But I'm not dignifying your position, I think it is absolutely not a foundation for success selling into these markets.
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You say that like it's not the goal. Yes, women are more vocal about male dominated careers that they're actively trying to enter but you're missing the forest. For adult women the damage of "has never even thought about a career as a plumber because that's a boy job" has already been done. You could probably name 20 careers that are like this for both men and women off the top of your head. That doesn't mean it's no…
“Women” is 50% of the population, not some hive mind. People who are pushing for better career paths for women are largely not pushing women (and others) towards careers in trades. I think that’s to the detriment of society in general.
It can't be that I'm giving an explanation as to why you see women pushing for more representation in some fields but not others, it must be that I'm describing the personal lived experience of every single woman on the planet.
Also we absolutely are a hive mind, Beyonce is the current queen who took over after Madonna.
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HP "The Witch" Carly Fiorina is still the leader I'd say.
HP also had Léo Apotheker as CEO, so the competition is very tough at this company. A pet rock would have done a better job for cheaper than Apotheker.
I wonder if that is because the skills and values needed to climb the corporate ladder to Executive positions are fundamentally different from those of Founders that formed their ethos in the broader society, outside of the ladder-climbing environment.
This hypothesis has interesting implications for founders that wish their companies to be reflective of their ethos over time. Suddenly the Japanese practice of adopting successors to leadership instead of hereditary succession makes a lot more sense - valuing temperament over bloodline. It also completely bypasses the issues with internal promotions in a hierarchical structure.
Debian is interesting with their use of an alternate operating model and democratically elected leadership.
Given how long-lasting companies can become destructive to the societies that they operate in, it seems to be that Society has a vested interest in solving this problem of companies losing their soul. Maybe there are corporate structures that can be designed to minimize these issues? Anyone aware of research or proposals in this area?
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What other shape do you suggest for a vehicle meant to escape Earth's gravity and reach space? I know it's not your main point, but every time I hear the "oh look at these nerdy space men playing with their phallic toys!" comment I get curious about the alternative.
Have you not watched 1950s sci-fi? Clearly a flying saucer would be optimal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar
Nevermind the service ceiling (actual).
Here's what a layoff email should include: - Broad specifics on who is getting laid off (numbers, teams/areas, geography). To help everyone understand the scope/nature of it. - Specifics about when people impacted will be notified by (ideally as short as possible, so people aren't e.g. waiting over a weekend to hear on Monday). Also, exactly how they will be notified. - Specifics on severance/support/benefits and or…
So the answer to "when" people are impacted usually is: before this call/email.
Someone did it as a joke with Chatgpt ^^ i thought no way that would happen in real life https://futurism.com/chatgpt-shamelessly-writes-letter-annou...
ChatGPT has become the place that people go when they don't want to write something and don't know what to write. It's not unlikely that Jennifer Tejada used ChatGPT.
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Are you guys letting AI write your articles for you? Cause this one is like the third article I’ve seen in the last week or so, with this following number error.
“In a 1,1669-word email to employees…”
Different article authors too iirc. Unless, again, it’s a singular AI.
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ChatGPT writes about ChatGPT. We did it.