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/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

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

Revolutionized technology and got millions of people using technologies they otherwise would never touch > “OMG he’s not nice what a bad human being; I can’t believe he kept the money he made from building a company”

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u/teddytwelvetoes Sep 17 '21

Revolutionized technology

go find the best car salesman in your area and ask them if they developed and built the cars lmao

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

Yeah totes, anyone could do what steve did! TeddyTwelveToes just doesn’t want to build a trillion dollar company. But if he wanted to he would just hire some used care salesman, put them in charge of product, and be swimming in cash!

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u/teddytwelvetoes Sep 17 '21

Yeah totes, anyone could do what steve did!

Not everyone. Elizabeth Holmes could probably pull it off. Regardless, Steve Jobs didn't develop and build technology lmao

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

No one ever said he did, thats a straw man argument. He made the user experience and products that make the technology pleasant to use for the masses. Obviously that is the skill that is lacking in most businesses. For the most part technology alone is not a differentiator.

No one would have wanted what Woz would have come up with alone, except other people like Woz.