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Like when they had to force him out of PayPal before he destroyed the company with his “rewrite the entire backend for Windows Server” mandate?
by msbarnett 4y ago
Like when they had to force him out of PayPal before he destroyed the company with his “rewrite the entire backend for Windows Server” mandate?
- aantix 4y agoPeople evolve.
- pc86 4y agoThis isn't a question about evolution. They said he executed very well early in his career, and that's a good example of a colossal early-career fuck up (that coincidentally got him kicked out).
- eloff 4y agoBecause successful people never make mistakes? I'm not sure what your point is.
- msbarnett 4y agoThe point is that "he did a phenomenal job early in his career" rather misses that his early career is more "incredibly mixed bag containing disastrous missteps" than universally "phenomenal".
- eloff 4y agoThat's missing the forest for the trees, don't you think?
- msbarnett 4y agoNo, I don't think that at all. Clearly. The Windows mandate was a colossal, world-historic fuckup that I think is indicative of his impulsiveness and representative of his capacity for making very very poorly thought through, Company-destroying decisions.