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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by bananapub on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:31PM (#38933886)
ask sam altman what he did - I still can't figure out how he went from "startup that went nowhere" to "hand out other people's money at YC until paulg fires him" to "CEO of openai".
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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by matchbok on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:42PM (#38934006)
Something called hard work?
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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by bananapub on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @08:15PM (#38934855)
and they say HN has no sense of humour, bravo
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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by matchbok on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @10:50PM (#38947331)
Please go try to build a company, hire people, make payroll, and.... actually build something. Then get back to me.
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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by refulgentis on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:53PM (#38934107)
Bless you my sweet summer child.

(OP, in some of the longform pieces written since The Event they touch on this transition being a mystery too, but I think it's a tale as old as time: earnest, smile on their face, performs work and passion, team player, right place right time and asked.)

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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by matchbok on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @10:50PM (#38947333)
Econ 101, read it.
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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by rchaud on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @02:45PM (#38942271)
I'm almost expecting a mention of bootstraps, and not of the CSS framework variety.
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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by matchbok on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @10:50PM (#38947336)
Nah, just a basic understanding of how a business works. I suggest you read up!
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Re:Amazon's Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff by alaskamiller on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @10:52PM (#38935918)
Glad I'm not the only one
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