"Altman doesn’t appear to be a beacon of corporate ethics."
replyDo those exist? I'm usually happy to see a mild candle flicker in the ethics window.
When Intel was on top of the world I was fortunate enough to work at one of the partner companies on a project that was a pet project of Andy Grove. I would nominate him and his whole C suite as a beacon of ethics and fair dealing.
replyWhen Intel was on top of the world they tried every trick to destroy the competition so that definitely didn't stemmed from the top...
replyAndry Grove was great, but Intel really was the epitome of "competition is for losers"
replyIn the early days all their products were explicitly designed to only work with each other to create a hardware walled garden.
I would say Patagonia would be considered such a flicker.
replyThey exist but their defining characteristic seems to be that they are not well-known and generally much less wealthy than celebrity CEOs.
replySimilar to the music world, the better you are, usually the more obscure you are as well. (e.g., Allan Holdsworth is a name known to most pros but the average Jack or Jill have no idea who he is or why he's considered important.)
Every Wall Street bank is run by guys who get that there are rules to this game and you don't squeeze the unsophisticated the same way. The same can't be said for Silicon Valleys contribution to the brokerage world.
replyis this a joke?
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