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by kelnos 1511 days ago
Plaid is a huge company with a CEO who is presumably a professional adult. Making sarcastic, whiny commends on Twitter should be beneath him. He just sounds like a child throwing a tantrum because a company decided to compete with him.

Not saying he shouldn't feel bad, or threatened, or upset -- those are perfectly valid feelings to have -- but airing those feelings like that is unprofessional and, frankly, pretty lame.
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JumpCrisscross 1511 days ago
> sarcastic, whiny commends on Twitter should be beneath him. He just sounds like a child throwing a tantrum

The problem is it looks like someone who feels they've been beaten. Twitter tantrums are precedented and tolerated for Silicon Valley CEOs at this point.

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ergocoder 1511 days ago
Not only that. His tweet misled people.

"Interview" turns out to be a job interview Jay had in 2014 before Jay even joined Stripe.

Jay started working on this product in 2019.

This is malicious. Plaid CEO intended to character-assassinate Jay.

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