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Mitchell, one of the co founders, left HashiCorp in December 2023 [1] It’s either terrible timing (missed on more money?) or he knew about it and decided month
by xyst 3y ago
Mitchell, one of the co founders, left HashiCorp in December 2023 [1]
It’s either terrible timing (missed on more money?) or he knew about it and decided months in advance that it’s not worth the trouble of staying on (ie, look at the aftermath of the RedHat and IBM acquisition).
[1] https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-reflects-as-he-departs-hashicorp https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-reflects-as-he-depar...
- nodesocket 3y agoI don't think Mitchell has any shares still. At least I could not find him listed on insider transactions. He made billion with B when it went IPO and most likely cashed out near the top which coincidentally is when I bought (facepalm).
- bonzini 3y agoWhat's the aftermath of the Red Hat and IBM acquisition? I've been at Red Hat since 2009 myself, and have hardly seen the difference over the last five years.
- eraser215 3y agoWe all know it's just made up stuff to feed the narrative of evil IBM making RH evil. Not even the plausible scenario of IBM changing the source code licencing of hashicorp software back to something genuinely open can change people's minds.
- fishnchips 3y agoOr possibly it’s completely unrelated and it’s just our brains looking for meaning where there’s none.
- bitvoid 3y agoIf his leaving is unrelated, that would fall under the first possibility of the parent comment, no?
- fishnchips 3y agoOnly if he really cared about that extra bit of money. I don't know him personally but from the outside he didn't look like he did.
- tech_tuna 3y agoIt's not unrelated. They kicked him out or he just got sick of the company's direction. Or both. Not a coincidence at all.
- kyawzazaw 3y agohe transitioned to IC way before he left