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D+ grade headline. His full offer and message:

“If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company,” wrote Cuban. “It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably created. They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms. I’m happy to invest and/or help.”

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Never rejoin under somebody that's already fired you. They are being forced to do it and will fire you again at the first chance.

Only go back if the management has changed. In this case, that means "If doge is gone".

that's not always the case. I've seen situations where managers were forced to lay people off due to a company decision. When the company stabilized in a few months, managers reached out to these fired and they happily joined back. It's all a matter of treating people with empathy and honesty even in bad scenarios. That being said, this is most likely not one of these cases.

That’s different than firing people outright.

Something tells that's an intended feature not a bug, that they will re-hire personel, re-buy assets like all those EVs, re-rent offices, but next time it will be with gov-aligned providers, and the cost will be the same for less.

Destroying is quick and easy. Rebuilding is not. What damage DOGE can do in a year can take 20 years to restore.

The cost won’t be the same but 2-3x more.

And that’s what the American taxpayer is going to pay for. “Savings”.

Sounds like a great investment opportunity for Mark Cuban to squeeze out some investment returns from the US tax payer. Looks like the DOGE mandate is working as intended!

Sounds like Cuban is still doing his best to pivot into politics (AGAIN) and his “rah rah” quote here with no functional action / money up front fits the profile.

As a Dallasite I remember very clearly Mark was angling to run for office before the news came out his Mavericks work culture was rife with sexual deviance and favoritism / help to sweep things under the rug and it tanked his ambitions. Totally serious about this.

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