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It’s easy to comment like this from afar, but would you actually send this message if you were the CEO?

• chatmasta 4y ago
  No, and the fact I'm not the CEO is why I can give a more accurate version of the statement. However, if I were the CEO of Twitch I'd like to think I could produce a statement more direct and less impersonal than the one they did release.
  • vecter 4y ago
    Fair. What would you say?
    • chatmasta 4y ago
      Dunno, is the position open? :) (I'm taken) Probably I'd say something about increasing efficiency and focusing on our core product. I'd still use some buzzwords but would avoid using the passive voice as a crutch to imply it's not our fault, even though we've increased revenue and it was our choice to fire people.
      • vecter 4y ago
        I still think that what you're describing would sound like the vague passive general corporate-talk that everyone complains about. I personally don't find any problem with it, since if I were in their shoes, I'd write the same thing. But I'm always skeptical when people say that they would do it differently as the CEO. Once you actually have that responsibility, your perspective changes. There is no point in doing anything different than what pretty much every CEO writes, and that's because they do write the most optimal thing from a business perspective, as "lame" as many may find it.