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Re:WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind by scarface74 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:13PM (#18079820)
In corporate America, you always get support as long as things are going well. As soon as things go badly, people look for scapegoats.

I’ve had a manager before who supported everything I was doing but when he was let go, I was left hanging in the wind. I’ve slso had a manager who wouldn’t listen to me (I was the Dev lead), everything failed in just the way I warned it would and I could see he was going to blame me.

Never trust a company - and by extension your manager who represents the company to his reports.

That’s about like the people who trust HR.

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Re:WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind by johannes1234321 on Friday September 28, 2018 @10:31AM (#18093656)
There is a difference between a low tier manager telling stuff on day to day business and negotiations during a multi billion acquisition.
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Re:WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind by scarface74 on Sunday September 30, 2018 @07:39PM (#18109076)
Well, looking at what happened with WhatsApp, there isn’t too much of a difference...
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