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This feels like the moment I decided to stop using Airbnb and go back to using hotels Mediocre SLA + low-assholery > small chance of sublime experience + tedious baseline of high-assholery
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Theatrical death panics aside, and even with vanishingly low likelihood of actually irreversible failures, this is a deeply shitty thing to do to people in general. Both employees and users. “charismatic license” can expire A kind of common knowledge moment happening here
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He’s posting memes instead of acknowledging user concerns even if misguided. Treating a significant part of the user base as political hostiles to be laughed at rather than people who’ve invested time into the platform if not money. Like it’s all just a $53b own-the-libs troll.
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Technically and business-wise I think Twitter is quite capable of bouncing back with effective leadership. But I’m now doubting whether under current ownership it deserves to. Do you really want to condone this kind of behavior among the wealthy? Very opposite of noblesse oblige.
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I’ll say the quiet part out loud: It’s been SV dogma for a couple of decades that you have to be an asshole to be a good leader. That even leaders who seem nice in public, if they’re effective, are likely assholes in private. It became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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This has been true of zero of the three SV charismatic mega-CEOs I have worked for quite closely in my 24 years doing computer stuff for money. One of whom is probably in the set of people you are assuming are cryptoassholes.
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