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He's not going to be the CEO for much longer. Quite probably, being too smart is detrimental to CEO career, but being obviously dumb in interactions with the media is not tolerated at all.

There was once a CEO of Seagate that could not contain himself and said something to the effect that people "buy drives to store porn". He was gone soon there after.

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I think you're vastly overestimating the repercussions here. John Legere has built his reputation on saying crazy shit; this is a drop in the bucket.

Along with outspokeness, John Legere has started many things at T-Mobile the rest of the industry adopted. He is not a lose cannon, like people are portraying here.

Why not both? He seems like a loose cannon, but one that often hits the mark. Sometimes it takes someone who is a little crazy to go against the bigger players.

Historically these types of outbursts when aimed at unpopular entities (e.g. other carriers) have been fairly popular and working well for him/them.

Problem is that they misunderstood the sentiment surrounding BingeOn and perhaps the EFF in general. I think he'll survive this one, and hopefully learns from it, but we'll see...

He has started to back down on Twitter already (if you look at his tweets from 30 minutes ago).

I have been thinking about Yishan style CEOs for a while now, as well as things like https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/679947535591473156

He's the best thing that ever happened to T-Mobile. If it wasn't for Legere, it's unlikely T-Mobile would still be in the business, let alone growing its customer base. I've been a satisfied customer for 2.5 years now.

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