Re:Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
by anotheranon867 on Friday December 06, 2024 @02:13AM
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He was fired from the same org. Several of his direct reports were also fired. He spent years trying to cover up major mistakes and oversights, and finally got caught red handed without anyone left to scapegoat. It wasn’t to an Elizabeth Holmes level, but he wasn’t that far away either.
This isn’t secondhand either. I witnessed him multiple times telling reports to bury findings, stop research that made the product look bad, and actively prevent anyone from going over his head to higher leadership.
Re:Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
by paulddraper on Friday December 06, 2024 @02:07AM
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Yeah that's pretty relevant tech experience.
Not sure how much more relevant you can get....
I think a lot of people would say this is not true. I worked with Bill a little at Microsoft, where he ran an x,000-person engineering org, and my experience was that he was a competent, detail-oriented, product-focused leader. You might disagree but, in any event, running an x,000-person org in a large tech company does qualify you for CEO positions, at least in the eyes of people who make those decisions.