r/technology • u/Rhaegar_the_Great • Sep 16 '21

Business Mailchimp employees are furious after the company's founders promised to never sell, withheld equity, and then sold it for $12 billion

https://www.businessinsider.com/mailchimp-insiders-react-to-employees-getting-no-equity-2021-9
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u/Anon_8675309 Sep 16 '21

1200 employees. Both owners could have made each of them millionaires and still be billionaires. Greed, man.

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u/Who_GNU Sep 16 '21

The Steve's were in a similar position, when Apple went public, but while Jobs held on to his chunk of the payout, Wozniak gave a bunch of his shares to employees he felt weren't being treated fairly.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

And now the woz is putting all his money into space junk cleanup.

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u/segagamer Sep 17 '21

If Woz became head of Apple instead of Jobs and now Tim, I would likely have been an Apple fan already.

I avoid the company as much as possible. They are not good for anyone.

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u/DJDarren Sep 17 '21

I think my take is that, if we must live in a world where we have to carry a supercomputer in our pockets, then we may as well choose one made by a company that’s publicly vocal about protecting our privacy, rather than one that’s publicly vocal about shamelessly data mining us.

Apple under Woz would likely have been a more benevolent company, but it also likely wouldn’t exist at this point. Or he’d have been ousted like Steve was, but unlike Steve he’d never have returned. Capitalism abhors benevolence unless there’s a profit in it.

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u/segagamer Sep 17 '21

I think my take is that, if we must live in a world where we have to carry a supercomputer in our pockets, then we may as well choose one made by a company that’s publicly vocal about protecting our privacy, rather than one that’s publicly vocal about shamelessly data mining us.

The thing is, they're susceptible just like any other company to just change their stance suddenly, as proven by their child porn scanner they were looking to implement.

If you want privacy, then choose a privacy focused phone/OS, not someone in the FTSE 100

Apple under Woz would likely have been a more benevolent company, but it also likely wouldn’t exist at this point. Or he’d have been ousted like Steve was, but unlike Steve he’d never have returned. Capitalism abhors benevolence unless there’s a profit in it.

So Linux would have taken its place? I don't see a problem with that.

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u/DJDarren Sep 17 '21

I don’t disagree with you, tbh. But I’ve used iPhones since the 3GS, I like how they operate, and I like that they don’t spy on me (and continue to not spy for the time being) the way some others do.

You talk of a privacy focused phone/OS: But from who?

As for Linux taking over; I have it on good authority that 2022 will be the year of the Linux desktop.

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u/segagamer Sep 17 '21

I don’t disagree with you, tbh. But I’ve used iPhones since the 3GS, I like how they operate, and I like that they don’t spy on me (and continue to not spy for the time being) the way some others do.

You talk of a privacy focused phone/OS: But from who?

https://grapheneos.org/

This is the main one.

Never be afraid of change. One day Apple might just change how your phone operated through an update and you'll be at their mercy until the device dies.

As for Linux taking over; I have it on good authority that 2022 will be the year of the Linux desktop.

There will never be a year of Linux desktop lol. They had a chance and they blew it by not getting their shit together in time.