| ex Expedia employee here I remember the long period of no CEO after the previous one went to Uber and Barry Diller, I think he was chairman of the board, was kinda at the helm eventually there was an all hands where it was announced Peter Kern would be the new CEO his qualifications? "we used to play golf together" the old boys club vibe was next level which is like, ok, it always is, but they weren't even trying to tastefully hide it, they literally just made it clear on the record first thing to be clear, I'm not saying Barry or Peter did a bad job (nor a good one) - as a cog, I usually find C level news and initiatives distractions that merit little attention I do remember though how Barry said Expedia's work life balance was all balance no work and how Peter would phone in all hands from his castle in Colorado where he was spending time with his family to tell everyone how important it was people wound down remote work and started coming in to the office again (AFAIK he himself was very rarely in office in any meaningful capacity) would I call it a well-run company? no, not really, but neither are most other companies, lol. most execs seem to have no better or worse idea what they're doing running a company than the average employee would. |