Professional boards of directors are supposed to be attentive to the risks to the organization as a whole, regardless of whatever weird ass governance structure exists.

Blowing out your CEO on a Friday afternoon and then accusing him of lying is not the way to do this, and they are likely to find out why come Monday morning at about 9:30AM Eastern.

They will remain aboard for as long as it takes to find a suitable replacement.

Now that is over, and Google has taken the lead now that Microsoft crashed into the wall.

Although now Google is the undisputed leader, given that Microsoft does not have the internal resources to maintain this thing.

Frankly, as it should. If you are going to take $10B from another organization and you nuke the CEO during market hours and then later it turns out that it was just an ordinary disagreement, then you should answer for that action.

On a Friday, no less. This is actually the kind of thing that can sink MSFT's apparent "first mover" advantage in the eyes of big money. OpenAI is now fractured, and whatever work they were going to be doing on tech is now going to be devoted to figuring out WTF to do with this mess the board just created all by themselves for no apparent reason.

If I am Vanguard, I am on the phone right now with Satya telling him to get control of this shitshow of a BOD before it nukes my positions.

Zillow exiting because they could not make it work should be a massive alarm bell. Not only are they no longer buying new properties, they are liquidating their existing assets. You would not do that if you thought the market would come back to you.

I have a project related to an M&A of two mid-sized web hosting companies. I need a bunch of resources. Specific roles and tasks are listed below!

- C# .NET developer (some classic ASP) (x2)

The acquired company has some user-facing hosting management tools, as well as some internal tools that are used to manage the business. They need to maintain and extend these tools.

The acquiring company has a large client who needs a custom cloud server provisioning application completed.

- Microsoft Dynamics expert (x1, maybe more depending on complexity)

The two companies have separate Dynamics deployments that need to be merged and extended.

- Zimbra expert (x1, maybe more depending on complexity)

The acquired company has 55,000 email accounts currently hosted on an old version of Zimbra. They need to upgrade Zimbra to the latest version and limit breakage.

- Ceph expert (x1, maybe more depending on complexity)

The acquiring company needs someone to manage their Ceph environment. I don't have too much detail on this one, other than Ceph is a thing they need to deal with.

- Flexiant expert (x1)

As a hosting company trying to go after AWS, they need someone to handle scripting their virtual machines, or so I gather. Like the Ceph expert above, there is not a lot that I know about this particular task right now.

This is likely going to be a 3-6 month full-time contract for all of the above resources. If you are local to the Phoenix area, a full-time position as a C# dev is quite possible as well.

I need to fill these positions immediately, so if you or someone you know is interested, please email me at my HN uname (AT) Google's famous email service.

Pay is negotiable depending on experience! Make me an offer!

About me: I am a software guy. This will take people smarter than me to execute, but I think it is important. If you are interested in taking part, email me at my username at the Google Mail.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9343751

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PE, big banks, all of that money is based on information gathered from the companies before the rest of us peons get wind of any of it. John Q. Public is playing what he thinks is a fair lottery, while the wizards are pulling the levers behind the curtains. If we as engineers could figure out a legal way to "earn commissions" (read: steal from tens of thousands of people every year based on information asymmetry), then $500k is no problem. Until then, however, we are confined to, you know, actually trying to create value for people rather than extract it from the system.

Pardon the cynicism, I am pretty unnerved by our whole economic incentive structure.

The difference is that a cold-call from a a convincing enough salesman can get someone to invest too much money in what is essentially a different type of lottery in the best of circumstances. In the worst of circumstances you have: pump and dumps, Ponzi schemes, etc.

A human body is an enormously complicated set of systems that can mysteriously fail at anytime for no reason at all, and then fix itself without intervention at times. There is a reason doctors are "in practice."

Seriously, if you are the victim of a false allegation that is later proven to be false, then your reputation is not destroyed. If you are the victim of one instance of a false allegation that later reveals a pattern of bad behavior, then you should not have behaved badly in the first place.