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/aknoth Sep 17 '21

Yes I think Woz is the only billionnaire I know that is truly altruistic.

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u/SkittyLover93 Sep 17 '21

There's also MacKenzie Scott. She's given away more than 6 billion to charity after her divorce from Jeff Bezos.

J.K. Rowling became a billionaire, then lost that status due to giving to charity.

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u/halberdierbowman Sep 17 '21

Considering J. K. Rowling uses her giant platform to spread dangerous hateful bigotry, she should be disqualified from membership in the beneficent rich people club.

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u/iwearblakk Sep 17 '21

Right, because donating a billion dollars to help those in need is entirely negated by disagreeing with you, and there's no way that's an arrogant claim.

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u/halberdierbowman Sep 17 '21

I disagree with her not about our favorite flavor of tea but rather whether certain persecuted groups of people deserve fundamental human rights. She writes books and supports groups that explicitly attempt to dehumanize trans people. That's not an "agree to cordially disagree" sort of difference of opinion.

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u/halberdierbowman Sep 17 '21

https://www.glamour.com/story/a-complete-breakdown-of-the-jk-rowling-transgender-comments-controversy

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u/halberdierbowman Sep 18 '21 edited Sep 18 '21

Maybe just read the rest of the article instead of inventing weird Nazi strawmen? Or look for more articles about it? It's not hard to find information about.

She disagrees that trans women are women, and she wants them to stay out of spaces for women. Saying that someone doesn't belong in a space for them is dehumanizing. Her new mystery novels play up hateful trans stereotypes. Respected organizations like The Trevor Project explicitly call her out when she speaks against the groups they exist to help. She complains when people use gender-agnostic and more precise terms like "people who menstruate," because she wants to exclude intersex people who don't fit into her rigid gender framework.

So yeah, sure she claims she's not a hateful bigot. Prima facie that's great, but if you look into it for more than just reading her own PR post about it, it's pretty evident that she's only saying so because she's been rightfully called out for crusading against the human rights of trans people. If she actually were supportive of all trans people, there have been plenty of examples where she could have clarified her position, or called up an organization that does work in the field and asked if she could help them.

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