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I don't follow LMG too closely but I don't think you are being fair. > He went from university, straight to being CTO The CTO of LMG role is pretty recent and

I don't follow LMG too closely but I don't think you are being fair. > He went from university, straight to being CTO The CTO of LMG role is pretty recent and not a "in name only" thing. Judging just on that alone, to be C-suite at a $100M company with 100s of employees and no options? Oof, not that common. In terms of experience, he has been the COO of Floatplane, running a dev team and SASS, shipping product for what 6 years or so and that's a more real qualification than most. I've seen him comment sensibly on development. Sure I've seen him not know some things but not enough to ding him. I'm sure he is highly employable now precisely because he does have real world experience in the trenches of something very successful. He is a popular known face and has industry connections. They were basically cofounders and I hope I wouldn't have to explain, here of all places, why it sucks for someone in a startup to take 100% of the equity themselves (Linus and his wife). That goes without saying right? I'm not saying 50:50 but 100:0 is not cool.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
> to be C-suite at a $100M company with 100s of employees and no options? Oof, not that common. It's not common because he didn't earn that job. It's not like he submitted his resume to Linus and after several rounds of interviews with him and other candidates, Linus decided he's the most experienced and qualified to be CTO, and had to make him an insane offer or he'd go somewhere else. He got the job because he wash his friend. Other people at Floatplane/LMG were responsible for the tech/business grunt work that makes the platform work. He's there to oversee things for Linus. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity for Luke to be CTO/COO out of university without any prior experience. It's not like other tech companies were begging him to be their CTO with zero industry experience and could negociate a better deal with equity than what Linus offered him.
- 7speter 3y ago
  I thought I saw a video saying Luke applied to be Linus’ camera man during the early days, got the job and convinced Linus he did a good job by having friends and family members comment on early LTT (post breakup with NCIX) how good the camera work was. I didn’t know Luke was Linus’ high school friend…

FirmwareBurner 3y ago

> to be C-suite at a $100M company with 100s of employees and no options? Oof, not that common. It's not common because he didn't earn that job. It's not like he submitted his resume to Linus and after several rounds of interviews with him and other candidates, Linus decided he's the most experienced and qualified to be CTO, and had to make him an insane offer or he'd go somewhere else. He got the job because he wash his friend. Other people at Floatplane/LMG were responsible for the tech/business grunt work that makes the platform work. He's there to oversee things for Linus. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity for Luke to be CTO/COO out of university without any prior experience. It's not like other tech companies were begging him to be their CTO with zero industry experience and could negociate a better deal with equity than what Linus offered him.

7speter 3y ago
I thought I saw a video saying Luke applied to be Linus’ camera man during the early days, got the job and convinced Linus he did a good job by having friends and family members comment on early LTT (post breakup with NCIX) how good the camera work was. I didn’t know Luke was Linus’ high school friend…