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I'm no fan of Scrum, but some of these alternatives are completely inaccurate/outdated.

Spotify stopped following the "Spotify model" barely a year or two after the famous video released. The Valve handbook is from over a decade ago and (from what I've read online) is no longer relevant (if it ever even realistically was).

Same, albeit with Reddit is Fun. Personally I used to visit Reddit multiple times per day but now I typically visit it once or twice per week, if at all. I'm sure the official app is fine, but the approach they took to third party developers soured it for me.

Ultimately I think if anything had any impact on Reddit's traffic it would have been the killing of the defacto mobile apps. The lesson any future founders should take is to kill off third party apps sooner rather than later if you ever want to do so, before user growth on those platforms becomes an issue.

Considering Ilya regrets his decision, implying this wasn't an e/acc vs safety debate, the two most likely scenarios to me appear to be:

A) DeAngelo getting revenge for custom GPTs killing his company Poe's core product.

B) The board discovering Sam working to use OpenAI resources/IP to further his own personal business/political goals.

My guess is that they personally prefer to own 100%, but for various reasons around who specifically owns the remaining shares (e.g. senior employees or friendly firms) they don't want to force them to sell.

So they instead offer a large premium and hope/assume those parties will accept.

Instead, let me ask you this: why is this a uniquely American problem. Certainly I don't hear about it frequently happening in other countries.

Is it really that much of a spike though? There's always been a bias against "liberal media elite" from conservatives for at least a decade now. It's increased, sure, but I don't think by that much.

I believe the real answer is that they probably do list all the ingredients on the label, because the reason why Coke makes so much money only is only partially because of the ingredients. The real secret is the exact weights of ingredients, production methods, and branding.

In fact if my memory serves me correctly, an insider did in fact offer to sell the secret formula to Pepsi, who promptly reported it to Coke. After all, even if Pepsi did get the exact formula and reproduced it - they don't sell Coke, they sell Pepsi, and their market (presumably) prefers the taste of Pepsi to Coke, so changing the taste doesn't make much sense.

I always assumed it was attempting to suss out if you'd been fired, since that naturally leads to a gap in your resume (and depending on how in demand your skills are, could lead to longer gaps).

It's also possibly just normal curiosity - most people don't have gaps in their resume.

The issue is that developing a Meritocracy requires that you first solve bigotry. It's arguably fine in theory, but it presupposes what is (at least in my mind) impossible.

It's literally where we get the name "Meritocracy" from. The book "The rise of the Meritocracy" was a satire, not a manual.

In fairness to Notch and Minecraft, he'd stopped having anything to do with Minecraft since like a year after the public beta was released. In fact he once said that the first time he'd played Minecraft since handing it over to Jens was when the acquisition was announced, and even then it was the Console version, not the PC version.

You're very much correct however, he himself will admit that he definitely prefers just making small games with small fanbases, and that he's not really suited to being a public figure.