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Linus Sebastion Turned Down $100M Offer

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Psi:

--- Quote from: ELS122 on August 29, 2023, 07:17:59 am ---So him possibly destroying a company when he was specifically told to give the prototype back to them, is just "oh well, no biggie"
After such an action, nobody will ever trust linus again, and for good reason.
Did he ever apologize even?

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If he had intended to destroy the company or sold the product intentionally then your statement.. "After such an action, nobody will ever trust linus again, and for good reason"  would make sense. But it was a mistake. It was sold due to poor internal communication and management.  It should have been set aside to be returned but was not and so ended up being sold with a lot of other stuff.

He gave them the cash value they asked for to replace it. So they can continue development.
You could argue that he only gave them the money after this all blew up. But that doesn't prove anything.
I'm pretty confident he would have given them the money regardless, but we will never know.

We have no idea if he apologized to them or not. It's not like we have any right to know if he did or did not apologized. It's between him and them, not us.

The whole "selling their prototype' thing isn't that bad, it was just a mistake and they have money to replace it now.  by far the worst thing was their review of the product itself. It didn't get a fair review, and Linus did admit that. 

hans:

--- Quote from: ELS122 on August 29, 2023, 07:17:59 am ---So him possibly destroying a company when he was specifically told to give the prototype back to them, is just "oh well, no biggie"
After such an action, nobody will ever trust linus again, and for good reason.
Did he ever apologize even?

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First, lets not confuse their business development, account managers and procurement with just the presenter on screen. Although Linus is owner, was CEO, still chief executive, that doesn't mean he can be involved in absolutely everything and was aware of handling that external communications. It was also shown in these last 2 videos what happened with the communication breakdowns.

Once it was known that thing was auctioned off, I think he did apologize on WAN show. But previously he also doubled down on their review stance.

I'm sure people will say "coincidence, think not", but I don't really have the information to conclude their intent fully. From their evidence, its clear that communication breakdown happened and thats on them to fix, but its something completely different to paint someone as an evil villain because of their visibility or current position.


--- Quote ---Not to bring conspiracies into this but it's pretty well known that political leaders buy out media companies and other people to make it so their PR isnt destroyed by their actions.
Money sure does buy immunity

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Eh, I'm not going to deny that this is how it works in some jurisdictions for sure.
I'm also sure none media outlet which is unbiased, free of any propaganda (even if it is copy-pasting anxiety-inducing gov statements) or stuff like that.
But I'm also not going to drag everyone which against my views into some kind of conspiracy.

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: ELS122 on August 29, 2023, 07:17:59 am ---Not to bring conspiracies into this but it's pretty well known that political leaders buy out media companies and other people to make it so their PR isnt destroyed by their actions.
Money sure does buy immunity

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So maybe Linus should buy out Youtube. ;D

ELS122:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on August 29, 2023, 09:06:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: ELS122 on August 29, 2023, 07:17:59 am ---Not to bring conspiracies into this but it's pretty well known that political leaders buy out media companies and other people to make it so their PR isnt destroyed by their actions.
Money sure does buy immunity

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So maybe Linus should buy out Youtube. ;D

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That doesn't really work because youtube doesn't report on you, the viewer does.
That's why you don't see many political leaders making youtube videos, it's bound to be a PR nightmare, and you can't stop it because youtube doesn't do any reporting like for example CNN "does"  ;D

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: ELS122 on August 29, 2023, 07:17:59 am ---After such an action, nobody will ever trust linus again, and for good reason.

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LOL, nope. The vast majority of viewers either don't know nor care what happened. Not everyone follows the LTT forum that closely or watches drama videos etc.

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