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He has ran both companies simultaneously in the past via 16 hour work days: http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/11/14/jack-dorsey-do...
Which is insane, and not sustainable.
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#183Removing and preventing fake accounts should be they're no. 1 priority.
I fear they might be tempted to attack the later by attacking the former.
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#184I'm half way through and it's just insane. He spilled the beans for every product that Twitter could build in the coming couple of years for everyone to see.
Couldn't he just have sent those recommendations or feature requests to the top management and spared them the public humiliation or giving the competition free ideas and inteliigence?!!
This is just ridiculous.
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You've got it the other way around. A forceful push is very likely to lead to a huge severance package (because that's the cost of getting someone to go quietly and stay for the transition). So the fact that he doesn't get a severance package leads me to believe it was voluntary.
It's a high class way for him to leave, that may set up other options for him in the future (VC, Professorship, etc) that wouldn't be there if it was an ugly breakup. Given that the stock traded at all time lows, no severance was justified. https://www.google.com/finance?cid=32086821185414
Nor did it stop Stephen Elop from collecting $25 million after running Nokia's devices business into the ground/arms of Microsoft (although I think technically that was structured as a "bonus")
Reminds me of some quote I heard somewhere: "CEO: where success is rewarded handsomely and failure only slightly less so"
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Then you end up with the "postal service".
Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime. If our "leaders" stopped actively sabotaging the USPS, it could be doing even better.
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Then you end up with the "postal service".
Which is wildly successful and doesn't cost us taxpayers a dime. If our "leaders" stopped actively sabotaging the USPS, it could be doing even better.
You have to be kidding! The USPS is a disaster and barely works. I'm about to cancel my prime membership because Amazon started using the USPS although Amazon have finally got the message at least for my account and rarely use them now. Look up Prime and USPS if you want to see pages and pages just how bad service is with the USPS.
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Which is insane, and not sustainable.
How do you know? Plenty of people work 16 hour days. Of course, it's not for everyone, but it's tough to say what's sustainable for someone else.
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uBlock Origin is a better friend. :) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa...
How does it differ from uBlock (or, how is it better?)
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and he's also getting a nice return on his angel investment in tellapart . . . which twitter acquired a month ago for $.5 Billion.
That sounds a bit sketchy, did no one call him out for that?