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You were cheering. You’re still cheering. And you’re doing it while you’ve had continuous layoffs of your own staff that have put everyone who works for you, o

You were cheering. You’re still cheering. And you’re doing it while you’ve had continuous layoffs of your own staff that have put everyone who works for you, or anyone unfortunate enough to be part of your predatory boot camps, in jeopardy. I don’t take any joy or schadenfreude from your failures. Real people’s lives are involved and it genuinely makes me sad. But glass houses dude. Glass houses. Maybe when you’re own company is falling apart, you should refrain from publicly commenting on someone else’s.

austenallred 4y ago
I was not cheering, and my opinion is consistent; as money becomes much tighter companies have to rightsize themselves to the amount of revenue coming in. This is true across Silicon Valley and it is true of us. https://twitter.com/austen/status/1588336949403611136?s=46&t=Y3JHbuxO1A1ntOe7k9PbUg https://twitter.com/austen/status/1588336949403611136?s=46&t...
- dzader 4y ago
  this is only true of shitty businesses built on scams and lies. company producing results don't need to.
  - austenallred 4y ago
    Sadly that’s not true. Even the very best of companies try to grow and occasionally miss and have to shrink, or layoffs would be far more rare.
- throwaway2729 4y ago
  You had no empathy for the people getting laid off. The drama at Twitter was 'interesting' to you.
- filmgirlcw 4y ago
  Why do you need to comment at all, I guess is my question. Why not spend the time trying to run your own business rather than callously argueing how over-staffed Twitter was. Why does that matter to you? You don’t work there. You aren’t one of Elon’s investors. Why not just keep your thoughts to yourself, the day 3700 people lost their jobs, instead of pontificating about how a company needs to rightsize itself? Especially when you had to know you were weeks away from laying off half your remaining staff. Someone else mentioned you need to spend less time online and you argued that you’re not that online and that the dopamine rush is worth it for you. Fine. Deal with it in therapy. But know that it looks incredibly tone deaf that the day you lay off half your staff (and the day after), you’ve spent hours debating yourself and justifying your actions on HN and shitposting on Twitter. Have some fucking tact.

austenallred 4y ago

I was not cheering, and my opinion is consistent; as money becomes much tighter companies have to rightsize themselves to the amount of revenue coming in. This is true across Silicon Valley and it is true of us. https://twitter.com/austen/status/1588336949403611136?s=46&t=Y3JHbuxO1A1ntOe7k9PbUg https://twitter.com/austen/status/1588336949403611136?s=46&t...

dzader 4y ago
this is only true of shitty businesses built on scams and lies. company producing results don't need to.
- austenallred 4y ago
  Sadly that’s not true. Even the very best of companies try to grow and occasionally miss and have to shrink, or layoffs would be far more rare.
throwaway2729 4y ago
You had no empathy for the people getting laid off. The drama at Twitter was 'interesting' to you.
filmgirlcw 4y ago
Why do you need to comment at all, I guess is my question. Why not spend the time trying to run your own business rather than callously argueing how over-staffed Twitter was. Why does that matter to you? You don’t work there. You aren’t one of Elon’s investors. Why not just keep your thoughts to yourself, the day 3700 people lost their jobs, instead of pontificating about how a company needs to rightsize itself? Especially when you had to know you were weeks away from laying off half your remaining staff. Someone else mentioned you need to spend less time online and you argued that you’re not that online and that the dopamine rush is worth it for you. Fine. Deal with it in therapy. But know that it looks incredibly tone deaf that the day you lay off half your staff (and the day after), you’ve spent hours debating yourself and justifying your actions on HN and shitposting on Twitter. Have some fucking tact.