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Re:Inside Medium's Meltdown by navs on Sunday February 12, 2017 @08:02PM (#13632300)
He could have done that with a lot more tact - informing publishers and employees. He's non-confrontational - ok. Hire someone that isn't. Moonshots carry a risk and it's not all his risk. It's the investors, the users, the employees as well.
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Re:Inside Medium's Meltdown by boozywoozy on Monday February 13, 2017 @04:42AM (#13634165)
Well said. Hindsight is 20-20 though. I imagine it's not easy to make the right calls when one is in the driver's seat.

My takeaway: It's freaking hard to be CEO.

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Re:Inside Medium's Meltdown by mgkimsal on Monday February 13, 2017 @06:56AM (#13634638)
Letting employees know they're getting laid off before they read about it somewhere else isn't really one of the great mysteries of life, and doesn't take decades of CEO/executive experience to figure out. It's sort of a basic human decency thing. It shouldn't be that hard to be a decent human being.
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