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The headline oversells it but your comment undersells it. The specific person and set of other employees were "a group of men in leadership positions on the sa
by jhanschoo 6y ago
The headline oversells it but your comment undersells it.
The specific person and set of other employees were "a group of men in leadership positions on the sales team", including the "sales director". When found out,
> Verkada CEO Filip Kaliszan gave employees in the Slack channel [i.e. those involved] a choice: leave the company or have their stock options reduced. All of them chose to stay and take the stock option cut, according to Vice. “I was shocked. To me that’s not just a fireable offense, that’s a career-ending offense,” one employee told IPVM.
- walrus01 6y agoIt says a great deal about the CEO's character and judgment that he even considered for a moment not firing everyone involved.
- bredren 6y agoThe video event annotations or filenames described in the article sound like what you might get out of a company culture that allowed the previous behavior to go largely unpunished.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoIt was not clear to me if the Arizona prison (the customer) chose those filenames or Verkada did. I could see prison guards doing the same thing... archiving clips that they find entertaining and naming them inappropriately. Not defending Verkada, I just wish the article made the culprit more clear.
- alexeldeib 6y agoFrom a different article, seems like the staff > Inside Arizona’s Graham County detention facility, which has 17 cameras, videos are given titles by the center’s staff and saved to a Verkada account. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-09/hackers-expose-tesla-jails-in-breach-of-150-000-security-cams https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-09/hackers-e...
- bredren 6y agoMy mistake. Would edit if possible.
- throwawayboise 6y agoNever trust a man named Flip. Edit: Argh... it's Filip. HN's tiny font strikes back.
- guiriduro 6y agoEven if the CEO is unshameable, the investors can be. Here they are[0]. Remind them publicly they invest in a broken company and make their association toxic as and until they distance, disinvest and hold the company and its officers fully accountable. [0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/verkada/company_financials https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/verkada/company_fina...
- baxtr 6y agoYou need a have subscription to see all investors...
- vermilingua 6y agoI can see them all just fine. Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, Felicis Ventures, Meritech Capital, and Next27 are the lead investors.
- HenryBemis 6y ago1. Sequoia Capital 2. First Round Capital 3. Felicis Ventures 4. Founder Collective 5. Meritech Capital Partners 6. Next47 7. Fifth Down Capital 8. Nick Candito 9. Hans Robertson 10. Idan Koren 11. Hector Garcia-Molina Edit: I used AdBlockPlus to block their pixel-filter, and then when I went back in they served me this nice message: Access to this page has been denied because we believe you are using automation tools to browse the website. Javascript is disabled or blocked by an extension (ad blockers for example) wink
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