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Comment by blauditore | Hacker News Reader

> Snap employees complain about his dictatorial management style and penchant for secrecy.

This is not too surprising to me. I remember how he actively worked towards preventing Snapchat from existing on the windows (phone/mobile) platform, purely due to Microsoft hate. This went as them going out of their way to targetedly fight third party windows phone apps until that indie dev gave up disappointed. That was pretty pathetic.

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Everything I've read about Evan Spiegel indicates that he's really cargo-culting trying to be Steve Jobs, with no real understanding of why Jobs was successful.

>“Why would I go around the company and just chat with people? Like that would be so awkward”

He sounds like a 17 year old, not necessarily that he has no idea what he's doing, imo. Just seems super immature a lot of the time.

full quote: "I had a pretty serious Christian upbringing. I remember growing up I was taught to be small, be a turtle,” he says. “I remember thinking, Why would I go around the company and just chat with people? Like that would be so awkward. Now I go walk around the office and get a ton of emails like, ‘Oh, my God, that was awesome you came by.’ ”

but bloomberg did only highlight the bit you quoted and put it several paragraphs above the full quote...

That's one of the many techniques journalists use to create false perspective without out right lying.

Please don't post cheap personal comments to HN. This breaks more than one of the site guidelines, such as the one against shallow dismissals.

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