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>Identifying inefficiencies in an existing technical solution I'm not sure that's true considering why he was (or the public story of why he was) pushed out of
by Cornbilly 3y ago
>Identifying inefficiencies in an existing technical solution
I'm not sure that's true considering why he was (or the public story of why he was) pushed out of PayPal.
IIRC: He forced a port/rewrite of their platform to Windows (from Unix) that eventually led to a code freeze of the existing platform to allow the port to "catch up" to the existing platform. At the same time, they were hemorrhaging money due to fraud and they couldn't do anything about it due to the code freeze.
- postmodest 3y agoElon's skills are 1) having money to throw around 2) having big manic swings that make the money seem attractive Everything else is a hagiography.
- Railander 3y agoTBF having a quick response time to real-world fraud (as in, not because there is a bug in the code, but because users are lying to each other) is not an issue a developer would normally have to worry about. Seems like he simply got scapegoated on that one.
- Cornbilly 3y agoIf I remember correctly, it was an issue with the code and not being able to detect/prevent fraudulent transactions. I’ll have to go through the book(s) and check out the explanation again.