Leaving the Nest

Re:Leaving the Nest by firebones on Friday June 03, 2016 @08:18PM (#11834205)

In retrospect, this line made me chuckle, it being a Friday and all:

>>> Frankly, if I could offer Larry Page once piece of advice it would be to take Tony out front of TGIF and fire him publicly

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Re:Leaving the Nest by yuhong on Friday June 03, 2016 @08:20PM (#11834214)

As a side note, I have been thinking about Yishan-style CEOs for a while now and part of the point is to fix these problems.

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Re:Leaving the Nest by Fej on Saturday June 04, 2016 @03:30AM (#11835374)

What do you mean by Yishan's style?

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Re:Leaving the Nest by aviraldg on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:26PM (#11834620)

Yishan-style CEOs?

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Re:Leaving the Nest by yuhong on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:40PM (#11834667)

I am talking about Yishan Wong, formerly of Reddit.

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Re:Leaving the Nest by plttn on Friday June 03, 2016 @09:36PM (#11834470)

Monday's standup: Y: Fired Tony Fadell

T: Realized that we made him an "advisor", dealing with backlash from that

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Re:Leaving the Nest by jtolmar on Saturday June 04, 2016 @03:47AM (#11835412)

But TGIF is on Thursday.

(Seriously, Google is kind of odd.)

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Re:Leaving the Nest by jpatokal on Saturday June 04, 2016 @07:35AM (#11835952)

Google is an international company and Silicon Valley is at the butt end of the world timezonewise, so holding it on Thursdays lets all the other offices dial in on a weekday.

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