I remember when Ellen Pao was the nightmare and spez wasn’t yet perceived as the fuck he actually is. Different times, I guess the devil you know is better sometimes. Otherwise you get spez, fuck spez.
Based on interviews since (so obvious grain of salt) as well as her background (keyword “her”), Pao was likely set up to clean up the image a bit and then get thrown under the bus for such negative actions as… banning revenge porn and blatant hate subs. She gets a nice payday and Reddit gets a bogeyman.
Its pretty standard for start up cultures and “tech” companies. Bring in an outsider to do the unpopular stuff and then have the founder/golden boy come back to “right the ship”.
I remember when Ellen Pao was the nightmare and spez wasn’t yet perceived as the fuck he actually is. Different times, I guess the devil you know is better sometimes. Otherwise you get spez, fuck spez.
Based on interviews since (so obvious grain of salt) as well as her background (keyword “her”), Pao was likely set up to clean up the image a bit and then get thrown under the bus for such negative actions as… banning revenge porn and blatant hate subs. She gets a nice payday and Reddit gets a bogeyman.
Its pretty standard for start up cultures and “tech” companies. Bring in an outsider to do the unpopular stuff and then have the founder/golden boy come back to “right the ship”.