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I agree. I can't even start to imagine the pressure. It's easy for us to say "he should have done like that" because we can think clearly from a distance. This
by Lucadg 15y ago
I agree. I can't even start to imagine the pressure. It's easy for us to say "he should have done like that" because we can think clearly from a distance.
This guy was one of us reading HN and hoping to make it a couple of years ago.
Now he's managing millions.
Nobody really prepared him for that.
I can imagine phone calls from people above him counseling to kill the story.
He may even had wanted to take a different approach but bend to pressure for what we know.
Money talks loudly.
I don't like the was he's dealing with it, I just want to say that it must be very hard to take good decisions in such a situation.
- suprgeek 15y agoIf managing millions robs you of the empathy that is necessary in this situation then there is something very wrong in the whole situation. A user of your service had their life upended as a direct result of loopholes in your vetting model. The LEAST you can do is reimburse them in full for their loss, take the monetary hit, and plug the holes in your model. If you are managing this in any other way you deserve to have your job forfeited.