42Floors Lays Off Half of Staff as It Cuts Brokerage Team, Refocuses on Search

Re:42Floors Lays Off Half of Staff as It Cuts Brokerage Team... by Lambent_Cactus on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @05:45PM (#9141312)

Is there a standard synecdoche for the type of tech company that's better at 'thought leadership' than at its actual business?

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Re:42Floors Lays Off Half of Staff as It Cuts Brokerage Team... by talsraviv on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @06:05PM (#9141419)

If the thought leadership revolves around the journey, learning, and transparency then I respect a company CEO who shares thoughts independently of the short-term ups and downs of the company.

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Re:42Floors Lays Off Half of Staff as It Cuts Brokerage Team... by mathattack on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @12:35AM (#9142862)

I used to think that was Joel on Software, but then he did StackExchange. It was as if he was preparing his whole life for that.

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Re:42Floors Lays Off Half of Staff as It Cuts Brokerage Team... by bobofettfett on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @02:02AM (#9143064)

Trick is: Stay long enough in the game, earn enough money to stay afloat, then find the gold at the end of the rainbow. Expose yourself to luck.

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Re:42Floors Lays Off Half of Staff as It Cuts Brokerage Team... by mathattack on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @12:26PM (#9145794)

Indeed. And he was very selective and disciplined about what he chose not to do.

Many gurus are bad businesspeople. (What makes them a good guru contradicts the nuts and bolts of running a company) I'm glad to see how well he's done.

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Re:42Floors Lays Off Half of Staff as It Cuts Brokerage Team... by lmm on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @04:40AM (#9143416)

Trello was what convinced me he'd really got it. It's got like 1% the features of Jira - and is 10x more useful because of it.

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Re:42Floors Lays Off Half of Staff as It Cuts Brokerage Team... by prawn on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @08:32AM (#9144030)

Dave Winer maybe?

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Re:42Floors Lays Off Half of Staff as It Cuts Brokerage Team... by fitshipit on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @06:42PM (#9141592)

Sounds like the opposite of what you'd want in building a business.

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Re:42Floors Lays Off Half of Staff as It Cuts Brokerage Team... by pbreit on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @06:55PM (#9141676)

I sort of thought that when I first read the headline but then when you actually see what's going on, I think the moves makes sense and is more a demonstration of a reasonable attack that ultimately didn't make sense vs calamitous failure.

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Re:42Floors Lays Off Half of Staff as It Cuts Brokerage Team... by skmurphy on Thursday March 05, 2015 @02:44PM (#9153323)

Acqui-Hire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acqui-hiring

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