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What’s with all of this seemingly whitewashing of history? Slava himself described why it failed. I mean as founder you have to be laser focused. Yet he was too

What’s with all of this seemingly whitewashing of history? Slava himself described why it failed. I mean as founder you have to be laser focused. Yet he was too busy trying to win over his “hot new employee” than focusing on the database. There is an archive of his deleted tweets here where he describes it: https://gist.github.com/travisbrown/059310042193a2e143408b05bdc2278d https://gist.github.com/travisbrown/059310042193a2e143408b05... And then there was an article that seems to be gone from the web (https://web.archive.org/web/20201130215752/https://threader.app/thread/1124414461014462464 https://web.archive.org/web/20201130215752/https://threader....). It stands to reason this huge distraction played a role in the mismanagement of the database and why it ultimately didn’t succeed.

cpufry 6y ago
lol i didnt realise those tweets were deleted. that guy usually doubles down.
leadingthenet 6y ago
Eh, I think you’re way too quick to criticise him for it. He’s human, after all. And in love on top of it! Personally, I appreciate the frankness. Too bad it got deleted.
- gigatexal 6y ago
  What a romantic take on a failure of fiduciary duty towards ones employees and investors. Imagine being an employee there and thinking you’re going to change databases forever only to have the founder being distracted and then the whole outfit failing.
SamReidHughes 6y ago
Um, you're obviously lying in this post here, contradicting the source material you link to.
monsieurbanana 6y ago
People write online way too much about their personal lives.
thu2111 6y ago
Bizarre. I don't know how much of a distraction "I hired a hot girl and then fell in love with her" was, but to me tweeting 40-60 times per day says more about a lack of focus (e.g. 56 times on 30th November 2020 where that tweet came from). The deleted tweets don't go back to 2017 but if that level of tweeting is normal I wonder where he found time to do anything, let alone build a database company. That said, I'm wasting time on HN currently. But I'm also on holiday.
- gigatexal 6y ago
  Perhaps I was keying of the wrong thing. I think you’re 100% right.

cpufry 6y ago

lol i didnt realise those tweets were deleted. that guy usually doubles down.

leadingthenet 6y ago

Eh, I think you’re way too quick to criticise him for it. He’s human, after all. And in love on top of it! Personally, I appreciate the frankness. Too bad it got deleted.

gigatexal 6y ago
What a romantic take on a failure of fiduciary duty towards ones employees and investors. Imagine being an employee there and thinking you’re going to change databases forever only to have the founder being distracted and then the whole outfit failing.

SamReidHughes 6y ago

Um, you're obviously lying in this post here, contradicting the source material you link to.

monsieurbanana 6y ago

People write online way too much about their personal lives.

thu2111 6y ago

Bizarre. I don't know how much of a distraction "I hired a hot girl and then fell in love with her" was, but to me tweeting 40-60 times per day says more about a lack of focus (e.g. 56 times on 30th November 2020 where that tweet came from). The deleted tweets don't go back to 2017 but if that level of tweeting is normal I wonder where he found time to do anything, let alone build a database company. That said, I'm wasting time on HN currently. But I'm also on holiday.

gigatexal 6y ago
Perhaps I was keying of the wrong thing. I think you’re 100% right.