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4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by seattle_spring »

scotth wrote: post #7
carabiner wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The original CNBC article https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/4chan-founder-chris-poole-mo... lacks this editorial spin. Tech people hop around a lot, 5 years is a solid tenure.

And three positions inside the company seems about right as well.

> Poole lasted just five years at Google, which CNBC notes is usually just long enough for any employee's shares attached to hiring to vest

They make it sound like he barely managed to get any stock. That's like saying, "person worked at X for 1 year, just long enough to get 1 year's salary." Well, yeah, but if they left in 11 months they'd get 11 months salary. It's not like if Poole left at 1 year or 4 years or anything in between he would have left with anything different proportionally to his tenure.

What an odd article.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by dmoy »

seattle_spring wrote: post #11
scotth wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And three positions inside the company seems about right as well.

> Poole lasted just five years at Google, which CNBC notes is usually just long enough for any employee's shares attached to hiring to vest They make it sound like he barely managed to get any stock. That's like saying, "person worked at X for 1 year, just long enough to get 1 year's salary." Well, yeah, but if they left in 11 months they'd get 11 months salary. It's not like if Poole left at 1 year or 4 years or any…

Also it doesn't really match with reality, since they'd usually get refresh grants and have a rolling four year window at all times.

The article sounds like the reporter heard a soundbyte about google's typical four year vesting period, and then did zero actual research into what that means.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by russdpale »

carabiner wrote: post #6
blissofbeing wrote: post #3

"only five years" that's a long time in my opinion to be at one company.

The original CNBC article https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/4chan-founder-chris-poole-mo... lacks this editorial spin. Tech people hop around a lot, 5 years is a solid tenure.

Depends on the company, I work in tech but for an old company, 5 years isn't very long and there isn't much room for any movement.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by russdpale »

Literal definition of failing upwards. He isn't a boy genuis, he copied code from japanese websites and then fostered one of the most toxic communities in human history. At google, he took a job from someone who was almost certainly way more qualified, both technically and morally.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by _lffv »

> Poole's 4chan is an anonymous, ephemeral imageboard that is often given the title "cesspool of the Internet." The site is broken up into boards of various topics, and some of the more lawless boards are home to all of the worst characters on the Internet, like school shooters, child pornographers, and racists. It's also the birthplace of a lot of Internet culture, like Rickrolling, lolcats, and, more recently, Pepe the frog memes and the alt-right. The site gave rise to the Internet hacktivist group Anonymous and is often used as a dumping ground for various hacks like the Nintendo Gigaleak. Poole sold 4chan back in 2015, a year before joining Google.

I don't think it's fair to say this without clarifying that a lot of the Q and other deranged stuff started happening after moot left. Nor is Pepe really a recent meme (somewhere I have Pepes saved from like the mid '00s), nor is Anonymous really a group (but that's questionable and a debate that isn't really relevant)... I know there's very little expectations when it comes to reporting on web subcultures but come on, this is common knowledge (maybe that's why it isn't clarified?).

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by adamrezich »

newsclues wrote: post #15

I miss canv.as

canv.as always seemed like a great idea, ahead of its time, as far as letting people make memes easier... but now, flash forward to today, and original content on 4chan is at a proportional all-time low. users there always say things like "someone take this image and shop [x] in" instead of doing it themselves in mspaint.

Re: 4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google

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Post by tedivm »

russdpale wrote: post #14
carabiner wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The original CNBC article https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/4chan-founder-chris-poole-mo... lacks this editorial spin. Tech people hop around a lot, 5 years is a solid tenure.

Depends on the company, I work in tech but for an old company, 5 years isn't very long and there isn't much room for any movement.

The fact that there's not room for movement is exactly why people leave companies, not a reason to stay.
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