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"From Galileo to Servetus to Mendel to Einstein. Revolutionary science has always incited visceral hatred on a mass scale."

Okay I'm done here

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"Allow me to set your mind at ease with regards to potentially questionable judgement by comparing myself to some of the greatest thinkers of all-time."

Honestly, I don't care what this guy does with his company, but it seems like a PR effort to salvage whatever reputation the Climate Company had built up before this acquisition by Monsanto.

To be fair - he was comparing Monsanto's technology to Mendel/Einstein, not himself. I think GMO crops can fairly be described as revolutionary tech.

... via a letter intended to be an internal communication? That seems a bit round-about.

I'm not claiming that this was some sort of nefarious plan.

It seems like this sort of PR effort might be even more important internally than externally. Presumably there are some portion of employees that are also emotionally invested in the "grand mission" beyond just being a job and interesting work. In that situation, releasing the "internal communication" just a freebie.

The letter is internal and intended to pump the team up about the acquisition (at least, that's how I read it). No surprise there is hyperbolic language. I'm not sure that's a good reason to stop reading.

Internal communications are always really interesting in that they provide some kind of window into the concerns of leadership — the line about family members ... or _recruiters_ ... reaching out to swipe people away from the "most evil company in the world" stood out to me.

You forgot Josef Mengele.

I mean, talking about Monsanto and all, that would be a more apt analogy.

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