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I get why this idea is appealing, but by that metric, Adam Neumann of WeWork also already passed. Occam's Razor. This is impulsive firing, with impulsive hirin
by tessierashpool 3y ago
I get why this idea is appealing, but by that metric, Adam Neumann of WeWork also already passed.
Occam's Razor. This is impulsive firing, with impulsive hiring on the way.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoElizabeth Holmes also more than qualifies. Her company was once valued at $10 billion. But I hear she's currently unavailable...
- red-iron-pine 3y agoonly currently. give it most of the decade and you've got a candidate
- DoreenMichele 3y agoEquality: When women can be as awful as some men and still get hired like them.
- tessierashpool 3y agothere have already been puff pieces aiming to rehabilitate her. example: “Liz Holmes Wants You to Forget About Elizabeth” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/business/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-interview.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/business/elizabeth-holmes...
- DoreenMichele 3y agoI'm not against her trying to figure out how to make her life work. I followed the story as it unfolded somewhat closer than I typically do. I said relatively little about it because I'm a woman on an overwhelmingly male forum and my point of view seemed wholly alien and unparseable here. I think her gender contributed to the debacle. I'm not saying that makes her innocent, but I think there were extenuating circumstances.
- vasco 3y agoYep. The more you're exposed to silicon valley the more you realize how many whims there are controlling the important things. M&A for example is basically just whims. Due diligence is compliance-only and even that is just to tick a box. The higher the role also the likeliest that the CEO either knows them or "had a good feeling". Not every company of course, but it's very prevalent.