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The tech might be amazing, but the CEO comes across as an asshole
by parthdesai 16d ago
The tech might be amazing, but the CEO comes across as an asshole
- tombert 16d agoGenuine question, since I'm a little out of the loop; why do you say that?
- parthdesai 16d agohttps://x.com/samlambert/status/2098069474205470970?s=20 https://x.com/samlambert/status/2098069474205470970?s=20 https://x.com/samlambert/status/2098075451373834681?s=20 https://x.com/samlambert/status/2098075451373834681?s=20
- samlambert 16d agonothing i have said is untrue. a founder of a company leaving to compete out of greed is a bad thing and i am glad to call it out.
- margalabargala 16d agoIn case you were unaware, if someone's defense against being called an asshole is to say "well nothing I said was false" they're almost certainly an asshole. No one accused you of dishonesty.
- mbesto 16d agoDid anyone say you said anything untruthful? No, they just called you an asshole. You can both be an asshole and be right. PS - Just some advice that I learned in sales 101 early in my career...focusing on shit talking the competition generally isn't a strategy that works well.
- omnicognate 16d ago> You can both be an asshole and be right. "You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole." - The Dude
- ragall 16d ago> You can both be an asshole and be right. Only petty people can hold that view.
- prisonguard 16d agoUnless you are at the basketball court where talking smack is a valid winnign strategy
- samlambert 16d agoI can fully understand why someone would think that.
- parthdesai 16d agoThere's obviously more to the story than outsiders are aware, but personally it just leaves a bit of sour taste in my mouth when the tech and blog posts you guys put out are amazing. (I'm a paying PS customer)
- cwisecarver 16d agoHe's actually quite nice over zoom so he just comes off as funny on twitter once you've met him.
- overfeed 16d ago> he just comes off as funny on twitter once you've met him. Never heard of the guy before today, but his dickish, edge-lord aura (on X and in this thread) makes me not want to meet him. If I had to choose between buying from him, or some other random dude, I'll hear out the random dude first.
- tgma 16d ago> If I had to choose between buying from him, or some other random dude, I'll hear out the random dude first. If you have such luxuries, I bet you don't have enough scale to be really profitable for him.
- overfeed 16d agoOh no, how am I ever going to avoid giving my custom to someone who has allegedly cornered the market on - checks notes - a db proxy? Give me a break. I can think of at least 4 other ways of scaling horizontally without switching DB engines. I'd have to be mightily constrained to have this particular product as the only option.
- tgma 15d agoSure, I don't doubt your ability to do so yourself. I just question your ability to trust some random unknown figure with your data if you have enough scale. That's quite different, actually.
- overfeed 15d agoTBF, I hadn't heard of the guy before this thread either, but I don't hang out in the unexpected-scaling-demand-with-no-infra-team circles, which appears to he the target market.
- tonyhb 16d agoSam is not an asshole. His twitter is great, he's definitely opinionated, and if you haven't had the luck of meeting him you might misread his tone as grumpy. It's not. It's sarcastic/dry humour and honest. They build good stuff and care.
- mbesto 16d agoYou can build good stuff, care, and be very opinionated...you can also be all of those things and still be an asshole.
- browningstreet 16d agoHis X.com persona is def that of an asshole.
- samlambert 16d agovery kind of you to say tony
- buremba 16d agobeing opinionated doesn't mean you can attack people you compete or don't like every other week
- nateberkopec 16d agoI, for one, like it when CEOs let loose a bit and show some personality. It's better than everyone walking around talking like a media trained robot.
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