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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by sbf501 on Friday July 01, 2022 @02:13PM (#31950449)
> It's absolute insanity that they don't see that the best talent can and will walk out the door if this happens. E

When your 51% CEO has so little life experience, what did you expect? There's a reason why - IN GENERAL - the best CEOs are older than 55.

Zuck got lucky with FB and made billions selling personal data and retained 51% control. Did we really think he was actually GOOD at anything?

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by joshstrange on Friday July 01, 2022 @02:20PM (#31950556)
> Did we really think he was actually GOOD at anything?

Lol, absolutely not. He got lucky, stole someone else's idea, and had a massive safety net to fall back on. I'm not saying he has zero skills but managing to hold onto 51% of the company does not make you a good CEO (as you stated).

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Re:Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds by edmundsauto on Saturday July 02, 2022 @01:30PM (#31960833)
So are you saying that the idea is what mattered, and not execution? How come other people with the exact same idea didn’t make it, given they had the head start?
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