mhoyeApr 16, 2024

Since I see that a notable VC-famous jerk is now telling us that he wish he'd "stood by" Eich way back, I'd like to tell you a true fact: Eich didn't lose the CEO's job for his (reprehensible) Prop-8 donation.

Everyone wants to believe that's true, because fits nicely into useful narratives a number of invested camps want to champion, whether it's somebody being ousted for reprehensible views or the woke SJW mob somehow pulling down a great leader (tm) but that's not what happened.

Show threadNadim KobeissiApr 16, 2024
@mhoye @freddy Too much bile and obvious hate for this to read as a credible account
Show threadFrederik Braun �Apr 16, 2024
@nadim @mhoye I worked there back then. I know Mike. You know me. 🤷
At the same time, everyone has their biases and gripes and opinions. That’s OK.
Show threadDale HarveyApr 16, 2024
@freddy @nadim @mhoye Sorry but I can't remember anyone being called "Mike" working at Mozilla ... :)
Show threadmhoyeApr 16, 2024

@dale @freddy @nadim True story: at one point very early in my tenure there were more guys named "Mike" working in the Toronto office than there were women working for the company at all.

For all the nostalgia of better days, that time is best behind us.

Show threadDale HarveyApr 16, 2024
@mhoye Yeh definitely, I remember I had 3 Mikes as managers in a row and narrowly avoiding a 4th and thinking something wasn't quite right about that.
Show threadHubert FiguièreApr 16, 2024
@dale @mhoye Don't forget the Davids. I had two Davids as manager in addition to a Mike.
Show threadGabriele Svelto [moved]
@hub @dale @mhoye IIRC I had lots of Davids, but was kinda low on Mikes, though at the company level the Mikes greatly outnumbered the Davids
Apr 16, 2024 at 9:04pmWeb
Show threadNicholas NethercoteApr 16, 2024

@gabrielesvelto @hub @dale @mhoye

Plenty of Chrises, too. Including two Chris Beards, one of whom was CEO and one of whom wasn't, and the latter sometimes received sensitive emails intended for the former(!)

Show threadL. David BaronApr 16, 2024
@nnethercote @gabrielesvelto @hub @dale @mhoye "David B" was a surprisingly common first name plus last initial. (There was a period right after David Bryant started (as my skip level manager) when I sometimes got calendar invites meant for him. And my manager had, for a while, two reports and a manager named David B.)
Show threadmhoyeApr 16, 2024
@nnethercote @gabrielesvelto @hub @dale I used to joke that hiring an intern with the same name as the ceo was a power move, with the leader of that team. “This request comes all the way from Chris Beard.” “Oh, damn, we’ll get right… wait a sec.”
Show threadchutten (he/him)Apr 16, 2024

@nnethercote @gabrielesvelto @hub @dale @mhoye

One of many reasons I go by "chutten". Still more than a dozen "Chris"es on staff, but only one chutten.