BigMan555
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Comment · 8 years ago
So you're saying that you are asking consent to store the phone number and email address of a client? And you'll provide clients with the right to be forgotten, meaning that you're prepared to delete their contact information? This seems like overkill.
Comment · 9 years ago
The CEO of Mattermark spent a lot of time and energy in the early days of the company establishing a public presence as a brash, highly opinionated thought leader in the “how to run a start-up” intellectual space, which makes the failure of the company a little ironic and is almost certainly contributing to the Schadenfreud I’ve read on Twitter.
Take, for instance, this post, in which she seemingly boasts of the company’s massive burn rate: https://medium.com/@DanielleMorrill/is-my-startup-burn-rate-...
Or this post, in which she shames a number of “Zombie Unicorns” (including WeWork): http://www.businessinsider.com/mattermark-names-troubled-uni...
Why be so publicly hostile and truculent?
Also, it appears that the CEO lacked focus: according to her Twitter profile, she’s a VC and a very prolific angel investor. I’d be upset as an employee of the company receiving $0 for my common stock that the CEO was effectively hedging her Mattermark bet with a number of side gigs. The CEO’s job is to be singularly focused on the success of the company.
Comment · 9 years ago
Wow, that presentation is pretty shocking. How on Earth did he get away with both the harassment and the crude commentary for so long? In retrospect, knowing how he was treating women for years and looking at a presentation like this, it seems almost as if he was taunting the general consumer tech public with his behavior.
Comment · 9 years ago
Sure. But that's not the definition of "industry veteran".
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm as horrified by the story as anyone, but I don't think the author can be considered an industry veteran. I just looked at her LinkedIn profile and she graduated from undergrad in 2014 and held two <=6 month jobs before joining Uber.
Comment · 10 years ago
I understood the absolute number to be of significance as the goal (eg. the absolute number is however many millions $ you'll make as outcome). But point taken, I don't think this was thought through :)
Comment · 10 years ago
How does it have the same impact on outcome? You're talking about the associative property of multiplication but he's saying the luck factor can either reduce your success to 0 or multiply the outcome of your endeavor by 1000. It obviously does have an impact (note: the results of .9 * .9 * 1000 and .9 * .9 * 1 are different numbers).