These are the people who will never do anything great themselves.
The glee with which some people convulse when an "overhyped" company flounders or fails — not for fraud or mismanagement, but because it was trying something very hard, fumbled a launch, or ran too long on a bad assumption — speaks volumes
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they can run for president.
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They must see the failure of peers who took risks as an excuse/justification to keep avoiding risks and remain mediocre themselves
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Anyone who has started a company should know better than to make fun of failures. It can and probably will happen to any of us. I agree w/ exception for fraud, and I also cheer a bit when deeply unsavory folks (like Rubin) fail, though I feel for staff in all cases.
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The statistics people claim Lambda School misrepresented are real, it sounds like they just needed to reevaluate and update them. Universities probably need to do the same as I am not at all convinced their 96% placement claims aren't decades old.
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I would not trust any university on any number these days
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Even more so when they were *also* part of the hype back when it was useful to them.
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There was someone who kicked our startup when we were down and in the press. Later, their company failed, and they got kicked harder than we did. Some people rightly rushed to her defense. A tough way to learn the lesson that piling on is wrong.
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the one who points out how the strong stumble, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the one who is actually in the arena.” -President Theodore Roosevelt
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