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by recursv_thnkng 1133 days ago
Mike is going to be shocked when he learns the majority of GM's software talent are nearing retirement or are fresh out of college with barely any background in programming. The company isn't the best at enticing and retaining software talent.
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raincom 1133 days ago
At least he can get another $30M c-level job elsewhere. Since the size of the pool of people at his level is small, bigger and better opportunities exist elsewhere. That’s what executive hunters do these days: pedigree, but not the results.
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bradlys 1133 days ago
Somehow doubt he’s unaware of this.

I’m sure this move is primarily a financial one paired with wanting a bit of change from being at Apple. He joined Apple a bit over four years ago. I’m guessing whatever his stock grant refresher is wasn’t worth the stay.

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cududa 1133 days ago
It's going to utterly fail and he'll get very wealthy off of it and I'm sure he's aware of this.

He's not a product guy by any stretch of the imagination and seems to have a disdain for "all that UI fluff junk" (as he once called some of my work in a pitch meeting).

The company was building database access control tools. He was viscerally offended that we deigned to abstract technical concepts into a graphical interface.

Good luck to him on <checks notes> a graphical interface that abstracts technical concepts for cars.

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