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Yep. Looks like it's now called "1for.one". Their CEO has a stock photo on LinkedIn and owned a mining corp.
I think 1for.one is the old name, then they changed it to jobsonic and, more recently, to wrkriot.com.
It was done in an afternoon according to its creator: https://mobile.twitter.com/WrkRiot/status/769357556762324992 https://mobile.twitter.com/tessstevens/status/76935690644803...
It looks like the rats are fleeing the ship:
https://medium.com/@dtunkelang/lesson-learned-ab0dc6723b8c#....
http://reddit.com/r/startups/comments/3m3lp6/failed_startup_...
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Just look at the blog too. I'm not sure who thought that a blog post entitled "10 WAYS TO SURVIVE AT WORK WITHOUT SLEEP" would be a hit with job seekers. (Not to mention that 100% of their blog content -- 7 posts -- was posted 3 days ago)
I'm blocked by a sign in page. Did they take down the blog in the last day?
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For control. A US employee can walk away from the sinking ship any time without too much repercussions, not the case for foreign nationals staying on company sponsored visas
What could have they done in this situation?
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Could you please link to one of those posts so that we may read one?
https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73d... I'm almost certain that this is the post he had in mind while writing this comment.
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A rant: I hate the "in crowd" subtext that goes on with all these postmortem posts. People in-the-know know what company and people are being discussed in these posts. Accordingly, "I know privileged information." banter is thrown around. I wish that, for the sake of those outside the loop (me at least), people either name-names or take the wink-nods to a private message. This is probably going to be a very unpopular…
Hit by it all the time? Where do you live? Vegas? If the SV echo chamber extends to Texas, you might be right about the club. She's just being careful! If she has brought the company down by explaining her position she may get in all sorts of trouble by naming them too. Lawyers would love to take her down if there's been a lot of money creamed. He'll probably use this HN thread to blame her for his company failure.
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Wow, the author's description "anti-SEO name" doesn't quite do these justice. "1for.one" is cringey but "wrkriot.com" is just straight VC repellent.
Not disputing you, but why is WrkRiot so repellent? It's unique and recognizable. I'll admit that "Riot" is just weird, but is that the main reason? (not trolling, I'm serious)
Second thought: this is a company which can't even manage to register "workriot.com". Even if "WrkRiot" is the brand, I would expect them to grab the domain with the more obvious spelling and have it redirect to wrkriot, but it turns out "workriot.com" is registered to a Finnish hosting provider sitting on the domain. So to recap: the domain with the more obvious alternate spelling of the company is (very likely) up for sale but they still haven't managed to acquire it. That does not engender much confidence in their marketing or management.
Yes, I think I would pass on this venture.