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Personally I've felt this has been in the works for some time. If you look closely at how the founders exited facebook, and what was said at the time, it seeme
by rando444 7y ago
Personally I've felt this has been in the works for some time.
If you look closely at how the founders exited facebook, and what was said at the time, it seemed (to me at least) that they left over exactly this.
I mean, that aside, can you really come up with many other operational arguments that would result in people walking a way from hundreds of millions of dollars? (or by some estimates leaving over a billion dollars on the table between the two of them)
- Calvin02 7y agoConfirmation bias is bad when others have it, but not when HN readers have it. You haven't bothered to read the source, haven't bothered to understand what the context is, and haven't even bothered to see that there is no mention of WhatsApp in the talk. Ducking tired of click bait and people who ducking reward it. :face-palm:
- michaelmrose 7y agoYou can in fact say fuck if you want to. There are lots of offensive things said in pleasant tones in polite society. Bad language barely moves the needle so give me an F...
- ghostpepper 7y agoYeah, changing it to ducking actually shifts the reader's focus from "Wow this person feels very strongly about this issue" to trying to decide what the tone is meant to convey. It took my brain a few tries to parse the word duck in this context.
- deminature 7y ago>can you really come up with many other operational arguments that would result in people walking a way from hundreds of millions of dollars? There's plenty of arguments: - Wanting to do something new without the constraints of Facebook owning all the IP by default - Not particularly liking the work environment and being independently wealthy enough not to have to put up with it - Health problems from stress - money doesn't compensate for bad health People walk away from huge piles of unvested equity every day of the week.