> “It was a pattern — if you talked about safety you were done, so you just didn’t,” said one former employee. “That’s just how it had to be if you wanted to ke

> “It was a pattern — if you talked about safety you were done, so you just didn’t,” said one former employee. “That’s just how it had to be if you wanted to keep getting a paycheck.” Sounds like a problem with management, which isn't surprising. Sebastian Thrun is a brilliant researcher, but he has yet to turn any of his ideas into sustainable technologies or companies. Self-driving cars aren't real yet, and Udacity is going through some rough times. To the best of my knowledge Udacity has never been profitable (please correct me if I am wrong). https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/22/sebastian-thrun-initiates-aggressive-plan-to-transform-udacity/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/22/sebastian-thrun-initiates-... Maybe he'll turn around Udacity (I doubt it, although I really hope so). My point is this man chases after shiny things, and then leaves as soon as there's another shiny thing for him to pursue. He does the fun stuff with early development, and then loses interest when you get to the hard slog of making everything sustainable. Similar to self-driving cars, he was able to get his flying machines working well enough for some really awesome demos - but he can't commercialize the technology because it's still demoware. I want to compare this to Icarus because superficially it's so appealing, but in the end Sebastian is going to be incredibly wealthy and never having really lost anything. He will even likely continue to be heralded as a genius by many (and sometimes rightfully so).