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by cowthulhu 1001 days ago
If I ever run a successful business, I’m definitely going to have a “no posting about the business on social media” rule to avoid situations like this! I’m not sure who’s in the right or not, but reading through the tweets (almost) everyone involved ends up coming across as somewhat childish, which seems like a total lose-lose.
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gochi 1001 days ago
On one hand, the rule is good, on the other a loss for everyone else who enjoys influential figures demonstrating how petty and childish they are behind the layers of image crafting.
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nuclearnice1 1001 days ago
Exactly. Almost as much fun as when Garry wanted to take our money to keep him rich: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35118988
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version_five 1000 days ago
His (and others) comments and social media behavior during the SBV thing really opened my eyes.
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evbogue 1001 days ago
What does this have to do with SVB?
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lnxg33k1 1001 days ago
You could hire a Chief Drama Officer
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WisNorCan 1001 days ago
To be clear these are not random people inside the respective organizations. These are the CEOs of the organizations.

I trust that they had the judgment to decide that they needed to defend their reputation.

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dustingetz 1001 days ago
lol
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android521 1001 days ago
well, Elon Musk who run the must successfully businesses on earth tweets all kinds of $hit and his businesses are going up and up.
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thejazzman 1001 days ago
Twitter has plummeted in value.

I know you're mostly correct but let's not distort reality here.

And there's a lot of evidence these business are excelling DESPITE him. Eg people buying Tesla even though they resent the man.

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version_five 1001 days ago
Right, it seems like with celebrities no press is bad press (with a couple exceptions) and Twitter feuds and drama bring more interest. But doing it on behalf of a company can only look bad.

The obvious example is Musk who regularly makes himself look like an idiot, though I think the kind of whiny defensive posts mentioned in this article look way worse.

Somewhat surprisingly, I think Yan LeCunn does a decent job of posting fairly aggressive tweets but not looking like a whiner, crazy or someone shouting pointlessly into the void.

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