Why did he get off easy? Who's going to work for him now?
Re:Follow up to the investigation results
by smirksirlot on Monday April 28, 2014 @05:30PM
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Given that Marc Andreessen publicly vocalized support for him and his new venture, I hardly think he'll have much trouble with his career.
Not to mention that he probably owns over $200m worth of GitHub stock.
Just off the top of my head, he was allowed to resign rather than fired for cause.
Re:Follow up to the investigation results
by asuffield on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @05:41PM
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I don't mean he'll have trouble getting hired - he won't. This probably won't hurt his "career" per se.
I mean he'll have trouble hiring people to work for him. I'd certainly think twice (and this is not an entirely casual statement since I'm an engineer and a startup guy) - not because of the allegations, but because the result of a careful investigation was that he made it an unpleasant place to work for some of his employees by being confrontational, disregarding complaints, and being insensitive to something that wasn't a problem for him personally. I do not want to work in a place like that, and I'd be worried that he'd do it again.
It won't stop everybody from working for him. He'll still get plenty of graduate attention. But putting together a good startup team is hard, and this kind of verdict might make it impossible.
Perhaps he resigned before the investigation was over.
failure to enforce an agreement that his spouse should not work in the office
It had been a big enough problem before that they had a formal agreement prohibiting it.