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OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"

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Re: OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"

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Post by andypants »

itsprofitbaron wrote: post #38

FWIW Dan Porter (OMGPOP CEO) has responded on Twitter[1] saying: What I meant to say was... I want to celebrate the people who worked on the game. Who have stuck together. They are everything. Thank you. He also responded to Notch[2] saying: @notch it's been a the craziest ride. So yes I may be temporarily insane. I just wanted my team who stuck with us to shine. [1] https://twitter.com/#!/tfadp/status/18643678761752…

He also said this:

  What's so interesting about success is the number of failures who try to ride on your back. Shay Pierce is just one of many...
Although now he's deleted the offending tweets and posted this:

  I'm sorry for what I said on Twitter last night. No excuses.

Re: OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"

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Post by krig »

rdl wrote: post #58

I bought a copy of Connectrode ( http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/connectrode/id438450056?mt=8 ) to support the guy, but it's actually a pretty fun game on its own. It'll be hilarious if he ends up on the leaderboard because of his former boss's lack of civility and professional decorum.

Same here. It's underdeveloped, but I think it could be brilliant with another revision or two. I hope he does well.

Re: OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"

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Post by jaylevitt »

remi wrote: post #79

Looks like he just apologized: https://twitter.com/#!/tfadp/status/186460580201238529

And actually apologized: "sorry for what I said", not "sorry if anyone was offended by what I said". I still don't think it looks good for him - apologies only mitigate, not erase - but that's the right response. If he follows up with a "it was a stressful transition and I was afraid that Pierce's understandable legal concerns would sour the whole deal and frankly I drank way too much", all the better.

Re: OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"

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Post by roguecoder »

j_baker wrote: post #28

Porter forgot the number 1 rule of politics: If your opponent is making a mistake, don't stop him. I understand what Pierce is saying (and can't help sympathizing), but I can't help thinking that writing that editorial was poor taste on Pierce's part, and probably would have reflected poorly on him had Porter kept his mouth shut and not turned him into a martyr. I mean, if you disagree with a potential employer's" va…

I highly doubt dissing on Zynga when he didn't take a job there is going to hurt his chances of being hired by other software shops (for one thing, we all sit around dissing on Zynga too.)

I respect honesty, priorities and transparency. I'd hire the guy. We aren't MBAs, after all: our goal isn't to hide behind a web of obscurity while we sell our clients bonds too toxic for us to hold. We want to hire people with side projects as long as they won't distract from their work for us.

He will have lost some crappy jobs at crappy companies that want cogs instead of collaborators. I don't think it's going to be a major disappointment for him.

Re: OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"

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Post by jaylevitt »

huggyface wrote: post #64
blankenship wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Very green" is a bit of a misnomer here—Porter's been the CEO of OMGPOP since 2009, and was a SVP at Richard Branson's Virgin Group before that. "Moment of weakness" maybe, but not from an inexperienced guy.

Porter's been the CEO of OMGPOP since 2009, and was a SVP at Richard Branson's Virgin Group before that. "SVP" of "Virgin USA", which was an absolutely minuscule offshoot. He has been a CEO of a tiny company for two years, prior to that acting essentially as a glorified salesperson. That is absolutely green.

And president of Teach for America in 1994? That was a pretty well-known organization even at the time, at least in DC.

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Post by toddh »

ChrisNorstrom wrote: post #27
zrgiu_ wrote: post #15

Like Notch said... "you are an insane idiot!". What did the CEO of OMGPOP had to gain from making those remarks ? He surely didn't expect the world to take his side.. Even if Shay Pierce really was "the weakest link of the team", you just don't say that. You just got bought for $200 million, now it's the time to show that you deserved to be the CEO of that company, by being diplomatic, respecting those around you (or…

True. It is indeed very unprofessional. But how come people like him are held up to such high standards? When you're not anyone important you can be brutally honest and say what you want like everyone else does. But as soon as you're in the public eye you're put on this pedestal. This is what scares the hell out of me. I'm a very uncensored person who says what he means and means what he says (and am an asshole somet…

Do you really really consider that a high standard? Really?

Re: OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"

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Post by mjwalshe »

mattmaroon wrote: post #52

"Porter’s response to Pierce is being seen by many as petty." If by "many" you mean everyone who knows what the word petty means, then yes, it is seen by many as petty. As a CEO this reflects very poorly on you. If he was so weak, why was he on your team?

um I and those with any HR background would call it "bringing the company into disrepute" and "Gross Misconduct"

Re: OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team"

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Post by mattvanhorn »

rdl wrote: post #58

I bought a copy of Connectrode ( http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/connectrode/id438450056?mt=8 ) to support the guy, but it's actually a pretty fun game on its own. It'll be hilarious if he ends up on the leaderboard because of his former boss's lack of civility and professional decorum.

Same here.
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