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OMGPOP CEO Hired Back Everyone He Laid Off And Made Sure They Cashed In
- kls 15y agoGood story and a good guy, he will have no shortage of hackers in whatever future ideas he wants to bring to life. Reputations like that are golden in this industry.
- anthonyb 15y agoWat? This is the same CEO who publically bagged one of his employees on Twitter: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-04/02/draw-something-ceo-tweets http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-04/02/draw-somethin... Obviously reputation means squat, since nobody seems to remember these things past the current news cycle. What are the chances that this is a PR puff piece to try and salvage his reputation amongst developers?
- MSexton 15y agoOh, I don't know, there were over 180 comments on that story here at HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3783114 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3783114
- kls 15y agoI generally don't read these kind of stories so I did not know the history, thank you for the link. I still think what he did here outweighs a unsavory twitter post about an individual. There could be a lot of dynamics to a single relationship, while not cool, the post very well could have been accurate, for all I know. What I do know though is bringing a bunch of developers back on so that they can get a deserved payout is a pretty honorable move in my book. It very well could be a PR stunt but it is a pretty costly one if that is the case, though not out of the realm of possibility, I cant see someone worrying that much about a bad twitter comment.