Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds

Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by WJW on Friday July 01, 2022 @06:55AM (#31944669)

> there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn't be here

Would be interesting to see whether he still considers himself essential for the future of Meta.

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by oblio on Friday July 01, 2022 @07:23AM (#31944858)

How many founders of successful companies willingly stepped out? 1%? 0.01%? :-)

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by abeppu on Friday July 01, 2022 @02:40PM (#31950864)

How would you know? When a founder is out unwillingly, most of the time don't both sides pretend it was willing and amicable because they know it looks bad?

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by Kye on Friday July 01, 2022 @08:44AM (#31945625)

There was a thread on HN some time ago discussing how different growth stages needed different people in the hot seat, and the fate of a company was often decided by the founder's willingness to cede control to someone with the right skills and experience. I think it came up in the context of VCs wanting to bring in CEOs for this purpose and the pushback they encountered.

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by dilyevsky on Saturday July 02, 2022 @03:40PM (#31961722)

Ofc VCs would prefer ceo they fully control ;-) what else is new?

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