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For the insulin thing, maybe you are thinking of Martin Shkreli. What he did got him in prison more than he got him rich. For the pollution thing, the truth is that many of those who got rich polluting the rivers and such actually produced lots of innovation. Plastics fit your description, and I think few things have been more of a paradigm shift than plastics. I get you with the ads business, but Google made a revol…
pharmabro went to prison for sec fraud, not the daraprim hike
That's the justice system for you.
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It was weird. It makes me sad because the startup I worked at was really gelling despite the HPE interference. Then they just laid everyone off one day (multiple senior leadership changes later) for no apparent reason. All the code is Apache 2 so I guess if I really cared I could just revive it... and as it turns out, I don't care that much. Other stuff to do.
Everyone in my entire team - best of engineering as well as every manager left. Underpaying and over subscribing people has become a hallmark over there - it's just a body shop now. Engineers are just numbers on a sheet, to be exploited, chewed and cast aside when they eventually burnout. Upper management has no vision and everyone's constantly firefighting and struggling to catch up with competitors who had long ter…
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I jokingly emailed IT and asked to have P(eterclar)K@adroll and to my surprise they gave it to me. They even asked me if I thought it would be confusing for proper PK and I feigned confusion.
I promptly got a lot of email for proper PK and since he was co-founder, CFO and board member I decided this wasn’t a funny prank.
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The current MacBooks and iMacs are the best computers they have every sold.
I agree. But how did like not being able to click on “Buy Book” from the Kindle app until three days ago when the court forced them? How do you like all of the ads in the App Store and they are thinking about adding more? How did you like having an 8GB MacBook and the overpriced upgrades until Apple Intelligence forced them to have 16GB minimum? How did you like being stuck with Lightning ports until the EU forced th…
Didn’t make much difference for me, in fact I still use a phone with lightning.
The rest don’t really matter for me, I have not downloaded anything from the App Store after the initial phone setup and I don’t spend money on subscriptions. Apple being hostile to open platforms and competitors is a forty year old story.
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It was 1991. They were an up start tech company. It was a different time.
You could also register a domain for free by sending an email form to a bot. It was truly the wild frontier.
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: Edit : The OP has history until recently - My message is off base and in the wrong context. Apologies. I feel like I'm in crazy town... Hi - I'm new here. I did something dumb and set up a mail alias so that steve@next.com would go to me. This was a bad idea, I'm sorry. I've changed it to steve@next.com goes to you, not to me. I think that makes more sense. My apologies. Signed, new guy. This was > That is one of t…
> What is happening if you can't email your boss/upper on the regular like that ? In a 40 person startup or small company, sure. In a 400 person company, the guy at the top is a few levels removed from "your boss" to be emailing with "on the regular". OP had Jobs as his CEO for 20 years (hired in 1991, until Jobs passed in 2011), and says this was the only time Jobs directly emailed with him (of course, 400 people in…
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2000 is a pretty low amount. presumably theyd have to spend way more than that to enforce it, so they would NOT spend it, in which case its free money that you shouldnt have turned down because it was way too small for a gag order
I friend of mine was an MD advisor to a bio-tech startup. They wanted her to sign off on things that she didn't feel comfortable signing. I guess she wasn't too happy with them as she gave up a $30K severance so she could disparage them. :-)