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I don't want to doxx myself so I'm intentionally leaving out details, and you can take this comment as rumor and baseless. But based on the people I know (pers
by qppo 7y ago
I don't want to doxx myself so I'm intentionally leaving out details, and you can take this comment as rumor and baseless.
But based on the people I know (personally) who work there - there wasn't a lot of talent being thrown at the product. I think their organization is incapable of bringing a product to market, even if that market existed.
- duxup 7y agoMaybe that was part of the issue. They had a large volume of guys like me, unremarkable folks... trying to do remarkable things. Not a good recipie talent wise.
- qppo 7y agoTo use startup lingo, they were a unicorn turning into a zombie because they never hired people who knew how to run their organizations as a cockroach. A lot of the people that I know who went there were basically fresh out of college or academia, because there was no one else in Florida and ML operated in stealth for way too long. That's not a bad thing (who among us hasn't been a fresh, doe eyed engineer at a startup?), but when you throw a couple billion dollars at them before they've learned how to build anything... might not work out.