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I love that he put "leaving the next" in quotes. He was leading that company down the drain and got fired, they just dont want to make it look that way. They ha
by marme 10y ago
I love that he put "leaving the next" in quotes. He was leading that company down the drain and got fired, they just dont want to make it look that way. They have had so much bad press the past year, from nest employees complaining of a hostile work environment to customers complaining about products being intentionally bricked. This news is shocking only in that it took this long to happen
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoAbsolutely. When you're at a certain executive level, you no longer get fired, you get "asked to resign". No doubt Google was done with him.
- harryh 10y ago"No doubt"? Really? He's been there 2.5 years which is longer than most founders stay on after acquisition. It's certainly possible he was fired. Maybe even likely. But I certainly have some doubt.
- rconti 10y agoHe's an "advisor". He has neither moved on to a more prestigious role in Google/Alphabet, nor has he started a new company (that he's announcing publicly), nor has he moved to a prestigious position elsewhere. It's clear that he's been pushed out.
- harryh 10y agoLots of people quit jobs and take some time before doing their next thing.
- nostrademons 10y agoCurious why he would need to move to a more prestigious position? Most people realize by their 30s that prestige is a sucker's game; it's a way of inducing people to do things that aren't much fun and they wouldn't really want to do on their own, by lauding them with accolades from people they don't really care about.
- pwthornton 10y agoYou don't just get asked to resign, you get made an adviser for awhile and still paid! Tony will be an adviser for a set period of time and still collect a bunch of money, which will help him save face and probably prevent him from working for other tech companies for a specific period of time. My guess is that he will be an adviser for 1-2 years.
- jessaustin 10y agoHow many times will he be on-site for advising?
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- pwthornton 10y agoDepending on the nature of the separation, Tony may never be at Google again. It really depends on if they left on semi-good terms or not. Tony probably won't be allowed the Nest team, but Larry may still value his opinions on where the products should go, even if Larry thinks that Tony is a poor manager.
- pm24601 10y agoMy guess is that this is a way for the non-compete agreement to be enforceable until enough things get fixed so Tony's knowledge about what is broken no longer matters.
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- anyoneeveryone 10y agoAnother recent example is Under Secretary Butch Blazer of the USDA. He "resigned" 3-weeks ago: http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2016/05/0111.xml http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2016/... The press release conveniently leaves out the Office of Inspector General's investigation of Butch, his wife and his step-son regarding a marijuana investment promising $44 million in revenue. Nor the fraud, extortion and numerous scams by his step-son. His step-son, Doug Fierro, is a "shaman"- http://amazonshaman.com/about.html http://amazonshaman.com/about.html
- atom-morgan 10y agoI would lol at someone who fired me expecting me to say it this way. If you fire me I have no further obligation to your doublespeak.
- harryh 10y agoPeople that get fired tend to not want to say that they got fired and prefer this sort of doublespeak.
- pjlegato 10y agoThat's why they usually couple it with some sort of a cash payoff / severance package for playing nice.
- rdtsc 10y agoYou don't say it for them. You say it for yourself. You have nothing to gain by going around telling everyone you've been fired.
- x0x0 10y agoAnd you get to keep vesting. There's $$$ in it for you.
- atom-morgan 10y agoHonesty. Transparency. Accepting your mistakes and failures.
- scrollaway 10y agoAll qualities Tony Fadell is known for. Right?
- CameronBanga 10y agoHe'll also get nice pay for two years as a "special advisor", where he does nothing and gets paid his old salary. I'd write whatever blog post was fed to me for that gig.
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- 1_2__3 10y agoYeah I was laughing at the "it's never a perfect time to transition" and was thinking, well, when everyone hates you and wants you to leave is probably pretty close to a perfect time to leave.
- mathattack 10y agoThis is how it works at that level. You get paid to not make noise or give bad PR on the way out. (Too bad it doesn't trickle down to junior levels) In some cases the golden parachute is just ensure that people don't fight the change legally or otherwise. The good PR then allows them to get the next job. I'm very surprised that word of Fadell's Jobs-in-training style didn't precede him. Was this behind his departure from Apple?