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Talk to Sam alone sometime for 5 minutes and you'll get it. Super smart dude and it comes through immediately.
by millisecond 9y ago
Talk to Sam alone sometime for 5 minutes and you'll get it. Super smart dude and it comes through immediately.
- jaggederest 9y agoThat's pretty much the justification for cronyism, racism, and nepotism in promoting sociopaths to positions of power. Appeal to "superficial charm" isn't the greatest argument here.
- bigiain 9y agoI know quite a few super smart sociopathic jerks - I wouldn't let any of them be in charge of a company that I'd built my reputation on.
- DigitalSea 9y agoReplace "Sam" with the name of anyone in a position of power and you could say the same about anyone. Case in point: >Talk to Donald Trump alone sometime for 5 minutes and you'll get it. Super smart dude and it comes through immediately. Being smart does not make you a nice person, nor does it mean you're incapable of prejudice or harm against anyone. Travis Kalanicks supporters were saying the same things about how nice he was as well, but the allegations of how Uber was being run and the culture of harassment against women reached fever pitch and eventually led to him stepping down from the company. Taking the allegations Sam was being motivated by the fact Pando is owned by a woman out of the equation, Altman's actions are still pretty damning. The part about having unsubstantiated information from a former employee on Pando is not how someone in his position should act at all.