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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

in vacuum, you could say that if not him, there would be some other manager doing the same, pushed to the top by the same forces. but in this case, we have a dude who destroyed yahoo search for "growth"/short term profit, then when that company basically fell apart in large part due to his motherfuckery, he jumped ship, moved to google, failed up however many times he had to, and did exactly the same thing. you would know that if you read the article

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 6 months ago

somehow it didn't happen before him. why so? it's a mystery that will keep me up for weeks, maybe decades