Big Cuts at Airy Labs, Ex-Employees Blame Management
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Big Cuts at Airy Labs, Ex-Employees Blame Management
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Re: Big Cuts at Airy Labs, Ex-Employees Blame Management
#2I have a deep interest in educational games.
When I found out about Airy Labs, I applied and interviewed with them in August 2011. I got the impression the engineers were very smart, and very overworked. When we got to discussing numbers, Hsu was interested in a low five-figure salary.
I sent him a few emails asking about things like revenue model. I was concerned that IAP corrupts the incentive structure around education. (Just imagine, your incentive is to keep kids playing games and spending money, nowhere does education enter into it).
I ultimately went to Google.
Andrew seems like a sharp guy, I hope he's successful.
Re: Big Cuts at Airy Labs, Ex-Employees Blame Management
#3This speaks to me against Peter Thiel's "20 under 20" program as it all seems to come down to lack of maturity and experience (and inflated ego).
Re: Big Cuts at Airy Labs, Ex-Employees Blame Management
#4This speaks to me against Peter Thiel's "20 under 20" program as it all seems to come down to lack of maturity and experience (and inflated ego).
I think this says more about entrepreneurs in the education space than it does about the program. For whatever reason this space seems to consistently attract shady and/or underqualified people. I think the reason is that education is an area where you can't really contribute anything of value unless you are well versed in the science. Because of this it's really easy to snow virtually everyone, from investors and the media to school administrators and teachers. So you consistently see lots of ideas that have zero chance of producing good results that still get lots of funding and even some initial traction.
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#5Working for a 19 year old would be a very tough sell. You learn so much about real life in your early 20's and answering to someone who hasn't gone through that "seasoning" process would not be something to look forward to. Yes, Zuckerburg pulled it off but he is definitely the exception.
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#6Working for a 19 year old would be a very tough sell. You learn so much about real life in your early 20's and answering to someone who hasn't gone through that "seasoning" process would not be something to look forward to. Yes, Zuckerburg pulled it off but he is definitely the exception.
I'm sure it also helped that zuckerburg's parents weren't secretly doubling as the company's senior management. YIKES.
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#7Working for a 19 year old would be a very tough sell. You learn so much about real life in your early 20's and answering to someone who hasn't gone through that "seasoning" process would not be something to look forward to. Yes, Zuckerburg pulled it off but he is definitely the exception.
I'm sure it also helped that zuckerburg's parents weren't secretly doubling as the company's senior management. YIKES.
That must have been the most awkward workplace ever. Working for two asian parents...that's probably a recipe for disaster
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#8With 20 people riding in a $1.5M raft, you need to know exactly where you're headed and why. Security-wise, you'd almost rather be in an actual raft.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure it also helped that zuckerburg's parents weren't secretly doubling as the company's senior management. YIKES.
That must have been the most awkward workplace ever. Working for two asian parents...that's probably a recipe for disaster
Perhaps you could take your racist stereotypes elsewhere?
Re: Big Cuts at Airy Labs, Ex-Employees Blame Management
#10"when you bring up the “team” page of the Airy Labs website, you now get a 404 error message."
Because the team is now 404: not found.
"employees were told not to speak to anyone who had left the company."
Oh, so it's a cult then. Understood.