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It almost sounds like a Game of Thrones esque style episode of Silicon Valley. Huge success. Co-founder dies. There was a mutiny to remove the CEO from it's em
by HaloZero 7y ago
It almost sounds like a Game of Thrones esque style episode of Silicon Valley.
Huge success.
Co-founder dies.
There was a mutiny to remove the CEO from it's employees
Layoffs and now shutdown.
This happened all within about a year? (Cofounder passed in December 2018)
- MuffinFlavored 7y agoHow do you successfully co-found a massive hit while being addicted to heroin?
- zweep 7y agoIt's called high-functioning addiction and there are tens of millions of such people (mostly addicted to alcohol).
- unlinked_dll 7y agoOr benzodiazepines and prescription painkillers. People switch to heroin when they run out of money.
- th0ma5 7y agoI had heard high functioning is a misnomer. They may have one area of focus they can succeed under some definition, but the overall quality of life and relationships is very poor.
- th0ma5 7y agoMust be the alcoholics hitting the down arrow :P Here is a great article https://www.nytimes.com./2009/05/05/health/05brod.html https://www.nytimes.com./2009/05/05/health/05brod.html ...
- Marsymars 7y agoMy understanding was that "high functioning" is relative to what is essentially "non functioning", where the person is unable to keep up even the semblance of a normal life.
- th0ma5 7y agoYes yes... But not anywhere near normal functioning.
- catalogia 7y agoBy having a steady reliable supply of heroin.
- omarchowdhury 7y agoHaving employees doing the bulk of the work helps, I'm sure.
- bsder 7y agoAccording to some acquaintances, heroin is apparently a really good drug for "crank through enormous backlog" type work. The problems are 1) heroin is highly addictive and has an absolutely ferocious withdrawal and 2) heroin is really easy to overdose. So, as long as you keep the heroin going, you're "good". The problems all start when the heroin stops.
- wp381640 7y agoOne of the best sales people i've ever worked with I found out two years in that he was a daily heroin user Most people think of the homeless or bums when they think of heroin addiction but there are a lot of very functioning addicts out there in the corporate world