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Thank you -- this is really good feedback.
by amasad 5y ago
Thank you -- this is really good feedback.
- windexh8er 5y agoIt is great feedback. Feedback that you failed to execute on in a spectacular manner. You've lost my group as customers today. In no way will I knowingly support a founder with such a broken perspective on prior art.
- p5a0u9l 5y agoThis is toxic. The man made a gracious response.
- ahmedalsudani 5y agoUnfortunately the crowd has turned into a mob... not the first time we’ve seen this. Wait for the cooldown and hire a PR professional.
- sswam 5y agoIs it just or unjust to over-react to a gross over-reaction?
- windexh8er 5y agoToxic in what way? It's OK for the CEO to publicly fly off the handle expecting this to go away due to his big stick he now wields because he's successfully leveraged the work of giants to his own fortune? A gracious response? No. His apology was not an apology at all. His apology can be distilled down to: "I'm sorry, but I'm still right - and I'm only sorry because the community has called me on it." Toxic? Or warped perception?
- samtheprogram 5y agoHe read the feedback (or at least replied) 3 hours ago. Give him time. Hopefully he’s acknowledging that comment well and we will be hearing from him again soon.
- burnished 5y agotoxic in the sense of appropriateness. your response isn't crazy, but as a response to some one graciously accepting critical feedback it doesn't make much sense. frankly a top level post would have been more appropriate. I think the specific idea at play here is that people should be able to apologize, or at least acknowledge some one criticizing them, without that becoming an avenue for attack. I mean, do you want to participate in a scenario where the only rational response is to simply not engage?
- windexh8er 5y agoI've been around a while and I've found that it's rather rare a person will try to intimidate or belittle a person on the same day they have an epiphany of their own failings all without external influence. In this situation the CEO is forced to confront perspective that isn't aligned with his. He's got two options at this point: the first is to acknowledge where he made mistakes and truly apologize the second is damage control - I think he attempted the latter. When you look through his history his apology is exactly as I described. His intention is to squash both problems while leaving the door open to an end game his lawyer(s) have counselled him on, potentially after the scrutiny subsides. Also, my intention of responding in line was appropriate in my opinion. The parent to the CEOs comment was very well defined. The CEO made reference to it being good advice. In my opinion publicly acknowledging good advice without following through on it seems hypocritical. That's my opinion. Finally, appropriateness seems to be an odd argument given all of the public inappropriateness from the CEO directly. The CEO has had many openings to right his wrong at this point, yet has not seemed to have been able to bring himself to execute on that.
- JAlexoid 5y agoLet's be honest here... Failure to talk to someone about it and then being forced by publicity to do so - is forced, thus inherently disingenuous. With the backdrop of publicity - I just don't buy the apology. Maybe next time Amjad will be better, but now - he's on the hook.
- cdelsolar 5y agoyeah we were talking about repl.it earlier today at work and wanting to increase our usage of it and this is really souring me
- lazyasciiart 5y agoReally? How did he fail to execute on it?