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Why did he get off easy? Who's going to work for him now?
by asuffield 12y ago
Why did he get off easy? Who's going to work for him now?
- rhizome 12y agoJust off the top of my head, he was allowed to resign rather than fired for cause.
- offbrand 12y agoPerhaps he resigned before the investigation was over.
- rhizome 12y agoIt's right there in the statement: After being presented with the results we felt Tom could no longer be an effective leader at GitHub. He offered his resignation and we accepted.
- asuffield 12y agoI don't mean he'll have trouble getting hired - he won't. This probably won't hurt his "career" per se. I mean he'll have trouble hiring people to work for him. I'd certainly think twice (and this is not an entirely casual statement since I'm an engineer and a startup guy) - not because of the allegations, but because the result of a careful investigation was that he made it an unpleasant place to work for some of his employees by being confrontational, disregarding complaints, and being insensitive to something that wasn't a problem for him personally. I do not want to work in a place like that, and I'd be worried that he'd do it again. It won't stop everybody from working for him. He'll still get plenty of graduate attention. But putting together a good startup team is hard, and this kind of verdict might make it impossible.
- smirksirlot 12y agoGiven that Marc Andreessen publicly vocalized support for him and his new venture, I hardly think he'll have much trouble with his career.
- lexcorvus 12y agoNot to mention that he probably owns over $200m worth of GitHub stock.