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by minimaxir 4278 days ago
The reason more companies don't do that is liability. Saying the wrong thing is 10x worse than saying nothing at all.
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You would definitely have to make sure that the person a) has a clue and b) is, in fact authorized to make binding commitments.

Sending out a "politician" type who specializes in speaking at length while saying nothing is worse than not doing anything, IMO.

(edited to add that I think Stripe handles this extremely well... they could be a model for others)

There are spokepersons and PR people...