Follow-up: I wanted to acknowledge that some other people who spent time at Leverage had much worse experiences than I did. I don’t want to downplay that. My experience may have been unique since I focused on building an external company and since my social circle in the Bay Area was mostly non-Leveragers.
All that said, I still stand by what I wrote above. I was reacting mainly to the original post wearing a guise of objectivity. I think I would have no gripe with it if the title was, “I have beef with Leverage and so here are some biasing facts I’d like to highlight about them” – though, to be fair, that’s a really long title, and also I could be projecting.
I think Leverage is worthy of deep criticisms (and thought so even before yesterday’s Medium post) but also what you say about “guise of objectivity” is something that bothered me about this post and I’m glad you voiced it.
Follow-up: I wanted to acknowledge that some other people who spent time at Leverage had much worse experiences than I did. I don’t want to downplay that. My experience may have been unique since I focused on building an external company and since my social circle in the Bay Area was mostly non-Leveragers.
All that said, I still stand by what I wrote above. I was reacting mainly to the original post wearing a guise of objectivity. I think I would have no gripe with it if the title was, “I have beef with Leverage and so here are some biasing facts I’d like to highlight about them” – though, to be fair, that’s a really long title, and also I could be projecting.
I think Leverage is worthy of deep criticisms (and thought so even before yesterday’s Medium post) but also what you say about “guise of objectivity” is something that bothered me about this post and I’m glad you voiced it.