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Kyle Vogt resigns from Cruise

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Re: Kyle Vogt resigns from Cruise

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Post by freddie_mercury »

tempsy wrote: post #17
hra5th wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My impression is that most Cruise employees liked and respected Kyle a lot. I have seen external people with a negative opinion of him but I am surprised to see someone say they have never seen anyone with a positive opinion, I saw far more positive than negative.

Glassdoor has a 66% approval rating for the company and ceo not exactly a stellar rating

But there's a lot of selection bias in that. Hard to know what it means without a lot more information and comparison to other companies.

Re: Kyle Vogt resigns from Cruise

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Post by ra7 »

To the surprise of no one. This is on the back of GM appointing a Chief Administrative Officer to “work with” the CEO after their recent controversies. One unfortunate accident (though Cruise was at fault for making it worse) has put the entire company in disarray. I suppose it’s the result of accumulation of so many minor issues in San Francisco and a lack of a strict safety culture. It feels like a repeat of Uber from a few years ago that ended with shuttering of their self driving initiative.

Re: Kyle Vogt resigns from Cruise

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Post by tempsy »

This is a situation where the whole e/acc stuff every Silicon Valley bigwig is shouting about got a company in trouble.

Push forward at all cost, expand as fast as possible, see regulators as stifling forces not to be trusted or taken seriously. Can almost guarantee the Cruise CEO was in that circle of thought and drank the Koolaid too hard.

Re: Kyle Vogt resigns from Cruise

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Post by cheriot »

notatoad wrote: post #16
throwawaynum2 wrote: post #12

That's too bad. I thought Kyle was a great CEO. I felt he really kept a positive, safety oriented, and accountability mindset. It's hard to find CEOs these days that know the in's and out's of the product you're making. Usually they'll just slap someone on with an MBA that knows neither the HW nor SW, but since this was Kyle's project from the beginning, he did. Coming from some other poorly managed startups, it was…

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Good or bad, I wouldn't publicly comment on my employer without a throwaway. Unnecessary risk.

Re: Kyle Vogt resigns from Cruise

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Post by tempsy »

freddie_mercury wrote: post #21
tempsy wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glassdoor has a 66% approval rating for the company and ceo not exactly a stellar rating

But there's a lot of selection bias in that. Hard to know what it means without a lot more information and comparison to other companies.

I’ve looked at plenty of glassdoor profiles. It’s low for a large company with as many ratings as it has.

Re: Kyle Vogt resigns from Cruise

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Post by onlyanamerican »

notatoad wrote: post #16
throwawaynum2 wrote: post #12

That's too bad. I thought Kyle was a great CEO. I felt he really kept a positive, safety oriented, and accountability mindset. It's hard to find CEOs these days that know the in's and out's of the product you're making. Usually they'll just slap someone on with an MBA that knows neither the HW nor SW, but since this was Kyle's project from the beginning, he did. Coming from some other poorly managed startups, it was…

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Re: Kyle Vogt resigns from Cruise

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Post by seltzered_ »

An insightful article from a couple weeks ago is this: https://open.substack.com/pub/apperceptive/p/i-knew-this-was...

"Whether Kyle Vogt keeps his job or not is I think a secondary question. The big question is whether Cruise, trapped as it is between the inexorable demands of the capital it has taken on and the impenetrable difficulty of the remaining technical challenges of deploying their fleet commercially, has a path forward at all. "

Worth noting Cruise service paused (i.e. not even supervised rides) in Austin on Nov. 15: https://youtu.be/1o1CTfsZy_k

Re: Kyle Vogt resigns from Cruise

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

Not sure if it's a coincidence but I feel like a lot of companies are taking advantage of the OpenAI brouhaha to release their news of major exec firings/resignations with the thought that their announcements will get buried by that bigger story. Trying to remember but there was another big firing on Friday I believe, and it felt like all the tech companies were making big C-level changes now to lessen the impact.

Re: Kyle Vogt resigns from Cruise

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Post by cheeselip420 »

tempsy wrote: post #23

This is a situation where the whole e/acc stuff every Silicon Valley bigwig is shouting about got a company in trouble. Push forward at all cost, expand as fast as possible, see regulators as stifling forces not to be trusted or taken seriously. Can almost guarantee the Cruise CEO was in that circle of thought and drank the Koolaid too hard.

No this was more of a fake-it-til-you-make-it situation
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