Techcrunch: "In the memo obtained from a tipster" Tim Armstrong: "On Friday I acted too quickly and I learned a tremendous lesson and I wanted you to hear that

Techcrunch: "In the memo obtained from a tipster" Tim Armstrong: "On Friday I acted too quickly and I learned a tremendous lesson and I wanted you to hear that directly from me." First Armstrong doesn't detail exactly what the lesson he learned was (so you know others that he is sending the memo to can learn from it). Second if you know that the memo is going to be "leaked" why not just provide the memo as a press release so it doesn't appear that the "tipster" has done anything wrong? (If in fact it was a tipster). Then you can just send the employees the press release by email. And then they have a more definitive idea that leaking info is wrong because you are drawing a distinction between public and private info. This more or less adds questions to whether it is possible to hold a private meeting and not have things go public (after all someone recorded the meeting which is what added so much color to the situation (hearing it directly is worth a thousand words, not as good as a video but the next best thing). Add: And that in a large meeting the assumption is that anything and everything that you say will get out there. Which it will because it's a trivial to have a hidden camera record everything. And if the meeting is large enough the chance of someone doing that would be great.