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Heroku didn't notice/care until someone else started making a big deal about it. Then like any sane company they took the safe route.
by vertis 15y ago
Heroku didn't notice/care until someone else started making a big deal about it. Then like any sane company they took the safe route.
- izak30 15y agoIt's just as likely that they didn't know. Marketing materials don't get sent through sponsors first.
- tptacek 15y agoIt took less than 2 hours for this to go from Twitter meme to Heroku and Apigee pulling out. If a sponsor pulled out tomorrow, I'd still be impressed with them for doing it. The simplest explanation for what happened here: this is an image Heroku gives a shit about not having.
- stevenpworrel 15y agoSo they're OK with scantily-clad booth babes handing out beers at sponsored events, but they're not OK with a poorly-written post about scantily-clad booth babes handing out beers at sponsored events?
- drusenko 15y agoExcuse me: "As soon as the event was published the Heroku team immediately took action with Apigee quick to follow." What would you expect Heroku have done differently? HN has seen a sharp increase in negativity lately. What gives?
- lysol 15y agoKids think it's clever to play devil's advocate all the damn time.
- ceejayoz 15y ago> Then like any sane company they took the safe route. Some of the other sponsors haven't, and I believe they're all fairly sane. I don't really see how Heroku could be expected to have been any quicker than they already were in responding to this.
- dmor 15y agoI am sure Heroku cared, they're really classy company. As someone who sponsored 70+ events in Q1 at Twilio, I can tell you that we don't review every Eventbrite page and email that goes out. The backchannel of people who organize hackathons is small and well connected, word about this got around to everyone very fast.
- tzaman 15y agoI agree. This was a prank gone bad. No one got hurt (apart from a few egos). Pulling sponsorship because of that is just lame. Don't get me wrong, I have the deepest respect for women but that doesn't prevent me from pulling (even sometimes sexist) pranks on my wife. She does the same to me and we smile at each other. I dare you, everyone that's horrified by their prank say it out loud (and mean it!): "I have never, ever made a sexist joke before in my life. At least not a kind that would in any way offend someone"
- ceejayoz 15y ago> This was a prank gone bad. A prank? As in "haha, we got you!"? > Don't get me wrong, I have the deepest respect for women but that doesn't prevent me from pulling (even sometimes sexist) pranks on my wife. She does the same to me and we smile at each other. Your wife presumably is comfortable in the knowledge that you respect her, because she knows you well. A woman showing up at a hackathon likely hasn't known the organizers for years. I'll smack my wife on the ass, but if I walk up to random women and do it I'm going to get the cops called on me.
- tzaman 15y agoprank == joke Sorry for my poor choice of words
- jsprinkles 15y agoAny chance you could switch industries and, say, work in advertising or something? I don't want to share a career with you.
- tzaman 15y agoWhy is that? Because I can't agree with big companies pulling their sponsorship because of a mistake? They apologized - which doesn't make it ok, but hey - now pretty much no one knows or cares how much effort has gone into the hackaton event. All it matters now is that they made a mistake. So the whole industry is giving the message: Your effort is totally worthless (and unnoticed) if you make mistakes that offend someone.