[WisNorCan]

This is the scariest part of the whole article “during a presentation they said took months to prepare.”

This sounds like what I would expect in the federal government or IBM. Not a fast growing startup changing the world.

I hope Ryan can change this part of the culture or they are dead.

[krisoft]

Why? If they were futzing with the wording of a powerpoint for months that is indeed bad. If they worked hard on getting answers to questions nobody else can answer that can be reasonable.

After all one can describe a phd defense as “a presentation which took years to prepare.”

[mhb]

Didn't Ryan hire him?

[WisNorCan]

Steve Jobs hired John Sculley III. And then came back to rebuild the company.

[jerglingu]

Lines up with the sentiment about Flexport being a tech retirement home

[psunavy03]

Pretty provincial attitude probably propagated by some overpaid MAANG bro who doesn't realize that there's an entire industry of tech folks out there who aren't making $300K/yr TC. So if you are making that . . . a little humility is in order.

[jerglingu]

I indeed was a former “MAANG bro”, but this is sentiment gleaned from both a cohort of former coworkers who had stints there, along with general Flexporter attitude on Blind (which, for its imperfections and distortions, gives pretty good signal on company morale and culture).

[psunavy03]

I'm saying for what you call a "retirement colony," there are dozens of businesses in which the vast majority of the tech industry actually work. Blind is where spoiled rich people complain about being rich in the wrong way.

[babyshake]

Off topic, but wouldn't MANGA be a better aconym?

[rideontime]

The problem with that is “manga” is also a japanese word for “comic book,” which could result in some confusion.