How to Tell If Your CEO Is Clueless

mattmaroon wrote: post #3

"All you have to do is listen to your CEO talk to people for a week and determine if she uses these lines." Little sexist there. Why does a sucky CEO have to be female?

I wonder if the correct approach is to use "she" when talking about positive things so people don't think you assume all CEOs are male, and use "he" when talking about negatives so people don't complain you think all bad CEOs are female.

Re: How to Tell If Your CEO Is Clueless

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Post by ojbyrne » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 4:07 AM UTC

It's just a giant thundering herd in the valley. Sure would have been nice to hear exactly one of the so-called intelligentsia saying things were going to be bad 9 months ago.

Not that it isn't true, because if enough people controlling enough money believe it to be true, it'll be true.

Re: How to Tell If Your CEO Is Clueless

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Post by Ztrain » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 4:15 AM UTC

It's amazing how Guy just recycles the same crap endlessly for decades.

Re: How to Tell If Your CEO Is Clueless

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Post by bisceglie » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 4:51 AM UTC

mattmaroon wrote: post #3

"All you have to do is listen to your CEO talk to people for a week and determine if she uses these lines." Little sexist there. Why does a sucky CEO have to be female?

use of 'she' as a gender-neutral pronoun is bullshit counter-sexism... think reverse racism...

Re: How to Tell If Your CEO Is Clueless

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Post by antiismist » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 5:03 AM UTC

ojbyrne wrote: post #5

It's just a giant thundering herd in the valley. Sure would have been nice to hear exactly one of the so-called intelligentsia saying things were going to be bad 9 months ago. Not that it isn't true, because if enough people controlling enough money believe it to be true, it'll be true.

Well, pmarca predicted "nuclear winter" in April and people thought he was nuts. Not quite 9 months ago though:

"We raised the money to enable us to keep scaling given our accelerating growth (over 230,000 networks on Ning now, growing at over 1,000 per day) and to make sure we have plenty of firepower to survive the oncoming nuclear winter. At current growth rates, we don't need it to get to cash flow positive, but having lived through the last crunch, it's good to be conservative with these things."

http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/04/ning-news-serie.html

Re: How to Tell If Your CEO Is Clueless

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Post by nickjames » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 5:23 AM UTC

Fuck Guy Kawablablablaaa. His slit-eyes disgust me.

Re: How to Tell If Your CEO Is Clueless

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Post by astrec » Tue, Oct 28, 2008, 5:24 AM UTC

bisceglie wrote: post #7

mattmaroon wrote: post #3

"All you have to do is listen to your CEO talk to people for a week and determine if she uses these lines." Little sexist there. Why does a sucky CEO have to be female?

use of 'she' as a gender-neutral pronoun is bullshit counter-sexism... think reverse racism...

There is no such thing as reverse racism. There is racism or not.