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Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Post by frutiger »

checkyoursudo wrote: post #76
throwawaymath wrote: post #64

Here's an offtopic observation. This article (from the New York Times ) denoted the names of the Instagram founders as "Mr. Systrom and Mr. Krieger..." The Wall Street Journal has a corresponding article about this story. In that article, the Instagram founders' names are written, "Messrs. Systrom and Krieger..." Despite frequently reading both papers, I can't recall ever seeing "Messrs" before. I thought it was a ty…

Specifically, it's an abbreviation of the French messieurs , which is just multiple misters. Maybe it's more formal now, but it was ordinary and frequently used in the past in both French and English writing. (Obviously, still quite commonly used in, um, French today.) E.g., English https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=messrs&case_in... French https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=messrs&case_in...

In particular, compare: “mon sieur” vs. “mes sieurs”.

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Post by dopamean »

throwawaymath wrote: post #64

Here's an offtopic observation. This article (from the New York Times ) denoted the names of the Instagram founders as "Mr. Systrom and Mr. Krieger..." The Wall Street Journal has a corresponding article about this story. In that article, the Instagram founders' names are written, "Messrs. Systrom and Krieger..." Despite frequently reading both papers, I can't recall ever seeing "Messrs" before. I thought it was a ty…

Growing up I always understood that the Messrs. language was standard for WSJ.

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Post by tsunamifury »

throwaway724 wrote: post #56

Posting anon. In 2009, the startup where I was working was hitting the skids, and our investors (correctly) were not willing to back us. We all kept grinding for a month or two in honorable futility, but after a while, my bank account depleted and I had to go. To make various ends meet and to keep my mental health during the wind down however, I took up some contract work that I found through various friends in the S…

Why did everyone run into Larry so much back then and what happened to the startup party scene... which was so odd at the time.

Edit: Found my answers on quora, I’ll let you look yourselves as I don’t want to link to what may be gossip but I had a laugh and a wave of nostalgia for those heady nonsense days

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Post by dgzl »

quintin wrote: post #77
throwaway724 wrote: post #56

Posting anon. In 2009, the startup where I was working was hitting the skids, and our investors (correctly) were not willing to back us. We all kept grinding for a month or two in honorable futility, but after a while, my bank account depleted and I had to go. To make various ends meet and to keep my mental health during the wind down however, I took up some contract work that I found through various friends in the S…

You know what they say: “When humans discover immortality, the person who will die the minute before will be the most …”

The most what?

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Post by TeMPOraL »

quintin wrote: post #77
throwaway724 wrote: post #56

Posting anon. In 2009, the startup where I was working was hitting the skids, and our investors (correctly) were not willing to back us. We all kept grinding for a month or two in honorable futility, but after a while, my bank account depleted and I had to go. To make various ends meet and to keep my mental health during the wind down however, I took up some contract work that I found through various friends in the S…

You know what they say: “When humans discover immortality, the person who will die the minute before will be the most …”

"the most..." what? Is that an add-your-own-ending quote for reflecting on personal philosophy? :).

(Also, this is a plot point in Bostrom's "The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant" - the last people to die will really be mourned, and people will then start asking if, maybe, they could have started working on the problem sooner...)

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Post by princeb »

GW150914 wrote: post #50
WheelsAtLarge wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook is here to stay. They are not Myspace. They are following the model of many of the tech companies that survive. If they can't copy it they will buy it. They have enough revenues that they can buy any hot startup and nurse it to success. Zuckerberg will likely be CEO for at least the next 10 years and has shown that he can learn from mistakes and continue to succeed. He's one of the few that has learned his w…

The question is are they here to stay like Microsoft, or Oracle?

facebook might actually move away from Web 3.0 and then become here to stay like ... TV 2.0

the content already feels like a mindless one-way feed from a centralized provider. barely at all like the original incarnation that connected me with my friends.

Re: Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company

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Post by lugg »

packetized wrote: post #66
danso wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't think the co-founders of a company, who are leaving for purportedly benign/positive reasons, owe it to their company to have a prepared explanation? Given that the sudden resignation of a founder -- nevermind both co-founders at the same time -- is generally seen as worrying news? edit: fixed punctuation. By "prepared explanation" I don't mean a formal press release, but a reason (even if vague) that can be…

why on earth would they owe anything to the company?

Jesus Christ.

Because people worked under and followed the for the better years of their life to make them rich?

Because the people you work with are more important than the work you do?

Because when you form a relationship with someone, contractually, business, or otherwise, you do, in fact owe them something, be it money, respect, or even some simple common decency.

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Post by person_of_color »

throwaway724 wrote: post #56

Posting anon. In 2009, the startup where I was working was hitting the skids, and our investors (correctly) were not willing to back us. We all kept grinding for a month or two in honorable futility, but after a while, my bank account depleted and I had to go. To make various ends meet and to keep my mental health during the wind down however, I took up some contract work that I found through various friends in the S…

> I went to tech and they went finance, sigh

I doubt they would be that much better off...

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