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Re:Shopify CEO Email to Managers: We Are Not a Family by tibbydudeza on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @05:00AM (#27128230)
If you are just flipping burgers for a living then that "you just work here" attitude will work.

That fuck your feelings attitude and money/share options will only go so far for some people that has lots of options in the marketplace.

Just ask Basecamp management how that worked out for them.

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Re:Shopify CEO Email to Managers: We Are Not a Family by clarge1120 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:20PM (#27132053)
We don't yet know how the Basecamp situation worked out for management. Have they backtracked on their decision? I haven't seen anything yet.

We'll see in about 12 months if Basecamp loses a ton of customers because the quality of their products and services suffered too severely. And that's assuming quality will suffer at all.

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Re:Shopify CEO Email to Managers: We Are Not a Family by tibbydudeza on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @03:55PM (#27134416)
Jason and David are just full it - they not special - all those books and podcasts and they caused a third of their employees to quit in ONE meeting.

Maybe they can write a new book - how to downsize the 37 Signals way.

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Re:Shopify CEO Email to Managers: We Are Not a Family by break_the_bank on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @08:26AM (#27129459)
It seems to have worked for coinbase! People at basecamp didn’t have any equity / incentive to stay long term. I don’t think DHH/Fried handled it well either.
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