That’s very fitting.
Hmmm, we have a company who’s success has been largely due to it’s large network of developers and the outgoing CEO tried to destroy that community… Who should replace them? Oh, I know, someone who took another company who’s success was based on a large network of developers and successfully killed that community
I bet if we mapped out the relationships between various CEOs and boards of directors we could predict these selections rather well…
Which I get - I’m starting the candidate gathering stage for a fairly senior role and the pool of candidates I have to choose from is already quite small given the requirements and niche product and of course I am going to defer to those I have worked with in the past as I know what they can do. I just find it funny that when faced with a very specific issue that unity picked someone who has a track record of fumbling that exact issue
So, when this guy eventually fucks up the company even more, can they fire him and hire the ex-CEO of Quibi? Or maybe the asshole from Mattel who made that horrible D&D licensing agreement?
Oh, oh, I know… Steve Huffman! Perfect fit!
It’s funny you joke about Quibi because those people all went over to Airtable and what do you know, they have turned a great product into a loser because they have no idea how to get their shit together and actually go public. They’re past their series F - they’ve got nowhere to go and the CFO only knows how to fund raise and she gutted their finance department that was actually working to get them compliant enough to go public. A couple years ago or so they fired their controller who specializes in taking companies public and it’s been downhill since.
Sorry for the rant but this is the world and people I work with and have had a front row seat to the shit show (well, more like a few rows back)
This dude is just an interim CEO, and he’s only an interim CEO for Unity because he’s a special contractor for the largest investing company in Unity. He’s only there to do normal duties while the board looks for a full time CEO.
Luckily he’s just an interim CEO.
“Introducing the X Engine (XE) - the free-speech, anti-woke gaming engine formerly known as Unity! To show our dedication to anti-wokeness we will only allow String and Long variable types, and to show my dedication to being a free-speech edgelord, functions will now be referred to as fucktions. Professional access to XE will be $420.69 monthly, with additional fees added on based on the success of the product you created.”
I mean, let’s be honest. Integers are just a waste of money and storage. I’ll go there myself and disconnect the integers from the engine.
Lmao, uh oh
[Relevant concerns about board of directors] (https://www.reddit.com/r/unity/comments/16j23ci/i_know_people_dont_want_to_hear_this_you_shouldnt/)
That was posted before John’s departure. Here’s the current board
They’re all either board members of a set of companies aligned with Elon Musk, or they’re offering special experience.
