sometimes you bring on a ceo just to get some controversial thing done. they can eat the blame and then leave
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The ol' Ellen Pao
Tacit racism. She is a US citizen of Chinese background. Why have her face on the flag of the Empire of Japan if the subliminal message wasn’t yellow peril?
Good point, although I agree with the sentiment of online communities becoming hugboxes with no room for actual dissent.
Exactly this, they are usually young too and they know their only job is to fire ppl and/or do decisions that will make most if not all unhappy. I have only seen it once my self but a lot of friends went through that at their company.
They called it an Axe Man, in my time. I've been at two companies hit with them, and I follow them AND the CEO who stepped down (once a reverted permanent one and the other a long-term leave) to see which companies are fucked next.
I'm embarrassed it took me so long to realize this. Somebody explained that to me recently, within the context of a conversation about layoffs. That CEO had no prior CEO experience, was only there for less than a year, and was part of the board of directors. In hindsight it seems so obvious.
It's what boeing does everytime a plane goes down.
That must be quite a list of ceo's
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So like a corporate sin eater?
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Is the signature feature that women initiate or was that some other app?
Yeah. I used the BFF version for a bit to try and find folks in my area to hang out with. It's a really horrible app. When someone messages you, you have 24 hours to respond. If you don't then the two of you get unmatched. I can understand something like unlatching after some time period without responding, but just 24 hours? Ick.
Did that ever...work?
Probably, considering that it was enough to get the company to the point that it could go public. And for the company to lose 54% of its "value" after changing it.
So it got enough eyes on the platform to serve them ads or subscriptions or whatever their monetization strategy was...did the product ever once function as advertised?
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Ohh you mean the "pay for every little thing" -feature? Dang I really liked that
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