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Now rewrite your entire comment with s/ubiquiti/sonos/g. So much wasted potential ... so much customer goodwill wasted because (apparently) no company is worth

by rsync 6y ago

Now rewrite your entire comment with s/ubiquiti/sonos/g. So much wasted potential ... so much customer goodwill wasted because (apparently) no company is worth running unless it is a publicly traded unicorn.

javajosh 6y ago
Why is it so easy to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in tech?
- rossipedia 6y ago
  Greed. 100% greed. While I was there, the CEO loved to just fly between offices (randomly) on his private jet. You never knew where he'd pop up, and that put everybody on edge, because when he was unhappy he tended to fire people in large chunks (and shut down entire offices). Every decision was motivated by how it affected the stock price.
  - croutonwagon 6y ago
    Even if greed is the only factor. Being unwilling to take a short term loss or hit while you rebuild or reinvest is just short sighted. Most successes come with some amount of risk or foresight to anticipate the market.
  - xyst 6y ago
    At least a handful of Glassdoor reviews verify this sort of micromanagement. How awful and what an asshole. That's a company that needs to be re-worked from the top. All C-level management fired, no golden parachute. edit: Robert Pera owns 75% of the company, looks like C-level mgmt will never get fired. If you are at this company, just leave.
  - arp242 6y ago
    I'm just an outsider looking in based on a short paragraph, but that doesn't strike me as greed. How does firing entire batches of people help the stock price? Anyone with more business acumen than a cat will understand that it doesn't. "Oh, that office made a mistake? Let's fire the lot of them so they'll learn how to do better next time!" Based on this, it seems more like an asshole with some attitude problems rather than greed per se.
  - zouhair 6y ago
    I'd say stupidity first, greed second. There are a lot of private companies making a lot of money. Valve and Ikea come to mind. Being private and successful is hard to achieve in the Capitalistic world we live in, when you achieve it stick to it.
- agentdrtran 6y ago
  It's not enough to be good, or great, every tech company wants to be a world-spanning juggernaut. and it's just not possible, let alone desirable.
  - rsync 6y ago
    No - not every company ...
- jdgoesmarching 6y ago
  It’s very easy to say “greed” because we want to believe bad things are always the fault of someone’s personal moral failings. Hopefully the tech community will start to realize that when the same problems keep occurring for the same reasons, it points to a systemic failure.
  - znpy 6y ago
    Have you worked for ubiquiti too like GP or are you just sprinkling random whatever words?
    - Clamchop 6y ago
      They had a coherent point and it wasn't buried in word salad. If you disagree, maybe you could express that with a few less whatever-words yourself.
  - beervirus 6y ago
    As in... what, capitalism bad?
    - consumer451 6y ago
      > As in... what, capitalism bad? I think it’s best to be specific. It’s the C-Suite circle jerk. My apologies for the language, but throwing away the advantage and further potential of the USA, in the interest of personal wealth and quarterly profits, is even more disgusting. The majority of America’s management culture is horribly broken. On the plus(?) side this management culture sometimes allows for easy external disruption.
colineartheta 6y ago
Just curious (I agree with you), but what are the s/ and /g for? Samsung and Google?
- brod 6y ago
  I think the OP is using the sed syntax [0] to say: > Now rewrite your entire comment with sonos instead of ubiquiti. [0] https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-6 https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-6
- istjohn 6y ago
  That's the syntax for search on replace with sed on Linux.
- inetknght 6y ago
  Good tools support search and replace. Better tools support regular expressions. https://linux.die.net/man/1/sed https://linux.die.net/man/1/sed
- deleted 6y ago
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- tinco 6y ago
  It's how you do a text replacement in VIM, I believe it's s for substitute, /../ for the regular expression, and g for global, to substitute multiple instances.
  - roland35 6y ago
    Don't forget the % if you are using vim, to make sure you replace on all lines :) :%s/ubiquity/sonos/g
- actimia 6y ago
  It is a `sed` command, used to replace (s/) all (/g) instances of the first word with the second.
- brabel 6y ago

by rsync 6y ago

javajosh 6y ago

Why is it so easy to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in tech?

rossipedia 6y ago
Greed. 100% greed. While I was there, the CEO loved to just fly between offices (randomly) on his private jet. You never knew where he'd pop up, and that put everybody on edge, because when he was unhappy he tended to fire people in large chunks (and shut down entire offices). Every decision was motivated by how it affected the stock price.
- croutonwagon 6y ago
  Even if greed is the only factor. Being unwilling to take a short term loss or hit while you rebuild or reinvest is just short sighted. Most successes come with some amount of risk or foresight to anticipate the market.
- xyst 6y ago
  At least a handful of Glassdoor reviews verify this sort of micromanagement. How awful and what an asshole. That's a company that needs to be re-worked from the top. All C-level management fired, no golden parachute. edit: Robert Pera owns 75% of the company, looks like C-level mgmt will never get fired. If you are at this company, just leave.
- arp242 6y ago
  I'm just an outsider looking in based on a short paragraph, but that doesn't strike me as greed. How does firing entire batches of people help the stock price? Anyone with more business acumen than a cat will understand that it doesn't. "Oh, that office made a mistake? Let's fire the lot of them so they'll learn how to do better next time!" Based on this, it seems more like an asshole with some attitude problems rather than greed per se.
- zouhair 6y ago
  I'd say stupidity first, greed second. There are a lot of private companies making a lot of money. Valve and Ikea come to mind. Being private and successful is hard to achieve in the Capitalistic world we live in, when you achieve it stick to it.
agentdrtran 6y ago
It's not enough to be good, or great, every tech company wants to be a world-spanning juggernaut. and it's just not possible, let alone desirable.
- rsync 6y ago
  No - not every company ...
jdgoesmarching 6y ago
It’s very easy to say “greed” because we want to believe bad things are always the fault of someone’s personal moral failings. Hopefully the tech community will start to realize that when the same problems keep occurring for the same reasons, it points to a systemic failure.
- znpy 6y ago
  Have you worked for ubiquiti too like GP or are you just sprinkling random whatever words?
  - Clamchop 6y ago
    They had a coherent point and it wasn't buried in word salad. If you disagree, maybe you could express that with a few less whatever-words yourself.
- beervirus 6y ago
  As in... what, capitalism bad?
  - consumer451 6y ago
    > As in... what, capitalism bad? I think it’s best to be specific. It’s the C-Suite circle jerk. My apologies for the language, but throwing away the advantage and further potential of the USA, in the interest of personal wealth and quarterly profits, is even more disgusting. The majority of America’s management culture is horribly broken. On the plus(?) side this management culture sometimes allows for easy external disruption.

colineartheta 6y ago

Just curious (I agree with you), but what are the s/ and /g for? Samsung and Google?

brod 6y ago
I think the OP is using the sed syntax [0] to say: > Now rewrite your entire comment with sonos instead of ubiquiti. [0] https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-6 https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html#uh-6
istjohn 6y ago
That's the syntax for search on replace with sed on Linux.
inetknght 6y ago
Good tools support search and replace. Better tools support regular expressions. https://linux.die.net/man/1/sed https://linux.die.net/man/1/sed
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tinco 6y ago
It's how you do a text replacement in VIM, I believe it's s for substitute, /../ for the regular expression, and g for global, to substitute multiple instances.
- roland35 6y ago
  Don't forget the % if you are using vim, to make sure you replace on all lines :) :%s/ubiquity/sonos/g
actimia 6y ago
It is a `sed` command, used to replace (s/) all (/g) instances of the first word with the second.
brabel 6y ago