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by therein 263 days ago
> It seems like you are reaching pretty hard to find an issue with this statement. Your comment seems to come from a lack of experience scaling databases and not understanding how difficult it is to do what we've done in partnership with our customers. Either that or deep or a high level of insincerity.

Up until this, I was gonna say, fair enough, I appreciate the direct replies from the staff.

But this paragraph settles it for me: PlanetScale as a company has a narcissistic personality which is fine for some I guess. Hopefully one day you will have a product that justifies that huge ego.
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samlambert 263 days ago
you made a dumb comment and got heat for it. i don't think that represents a narcissistic personality. regardless of what you think of us i wish you all the best.
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JoshPurtell 263 days ago
I had a high opinion of PS before this comment.

Now I have a higher opinion of PS

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therein 263 days ago
Oh I got the heat for it? From you? I felt none of it. Way to represent your employer weird champ.

It is wild that an employee (lmao CEO) posts this way and it is sanctioned by his employer. I guess you're used to talking this way to your employees. But I am not an employee, so I can't feel your fury.

I am glad it is taking place in public, I can only imagine how poorly you must treat people behind closed doors. At least here people can see it for themselves how unprofessionally this company is run. I wish nothing but patience to your employees, God knows what they must be saying once you're out of the room.

You had one job here, to represent your company in a professional level-headed manner and you couldn't even do that. Such a shame.

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xnickb 263 days ago
Oh come on now, no one reads this deep into the conversation.

Sigh.

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ksec 263 days ago
>But this paragraph settles it for me: PlanetScale as a company has a narcissistic personality which is fine for some I guess. Hopefully one day you will have a product that justifies that huge ego.

What you wrote earlier.

>Did any of these companies reach out to them and say "you know, we wouldn't have been able to scale beyond our previous limits without you, thank you so much guys you saved us". If not, this is so insincere that it is cringe.

I guess I will let the rest of HN be the judge.

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