>be big unimpeachable tech ceo
>need to make some layoffs, but don’t want to have to kill morale, or for your employees to think you’re disloyal
>publish a manifesto on the internet exclaiming your corporation’s allegiance to right-libertarianism or something
>half of your payroll resigns voluntarily without any purging
>give half their pay to the other half of your workforce and make an extra 200MM that year
Seems like a lot of ways for that to go wrong. Especially if many of your customers (big advertisers) leave voluntarily as well.
Seems to have worked out for Kraken and Coinbase though.
For now. Even if not, there are others for whom it’s not worked out so well, and it’s unclear if these actions are causal to success.
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>be big unimpeachable tech ceo
>need to make some layoffs, but don’t want to have to kill morale, or for your employees to think you’re disloyal
>publish a manifesto on the internet exclaiming your corporation’s allegiance to right-libertarianism or something
>half of your payroll resigns voluntarily without any purging
>give half their pay to the other half of your workforce and make an extra 200MM that year
Seems like a lot of ways for that to go wrong. Especially if many of your customers (big advertisers) leave voluntarily as well.
Seems to have worked out for Kraken and Coinbase though.
For now. Even if not, there are others for whom it’s not worked out so well, and it’s unclear if these actions are causal to success.