The buzz out of the Code Conference this week is, naturally, all about the disastrous performance of X / Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino, who closed out the two-day affair in spectacular fashion. Vox’s Peter Kafka, who has been going to the conference since it started in 2008, called it “the weirdest session I’ve ever seen.” If I had to sum up the vibe as everyone trickled off to dinner afterward, it would be stunned disbelief. As for Yaccarino, she immediately fled the premises with her six-person security detail.
It’s okay Verge, she is not a damsel in distress. She asked for this specifically.
She
tookpractically begged for the job, no sympathy.research has indicated that women and other minorities view risky job offers as the only chance they are likely to get.
fuck right off with that, I’ve read her history
Indeed, I have little respect for advertisers and I disagree with her politics. But I wouldn’t say I have no sympathy, and I offered a plausible explanation on why she might have taken the job.
I mean, you’re welcome to your own judgment regarding how much sympathy to have, but she chased the job knowing full well why the job needed to be filled, so I have no sympathy when she makes herself look like an idiot for Elon. She resigned from NBCUniversal the same day her Twitter position was announced. She didn’t actually need a new job, but she made a choice to take this one and all the bullshit that comes with it.
edit: it’s possible she did want a new job, but I’m certain she could have held out for something better than this.
Well, we agree that she looked terrible. Here’s the evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYymRU-bfpQ
[2 mins 15 sec] Yaccarino: “I work at X, he worked at Twitter, X is a new company.”
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[3 mins 16 sec] Yaccarino: “The team at Twitter is fantastic”At least she lasted 1 whole minute before that embarassing contradiction. I can’t do another 38 minutes of watching that mess though, too painful right from the start.
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There’s risky, and then there’s walking into a blender. This tends towards the latter.
She’s a woman Elon put in power to toss under the bus when his company failed.
Lookup glass cliff. Happened at reddit as well.
And looking back, she was absolutely in the right clearing out those communities.
There’s no paywall on theverge.
Narrator: yes there is
While you’re technically right, I don’t see a material difference between paying with cash and paying with data (Verge sign up is free, but it’s still sign up).
To me, this is the same as a paywall.
tell me more
Oh! Sorry, I stand corrected.
tell me more
Reporters and journalists deserve to get paid for their work.
My comment was purely about whether or not a paywall exists.
Not usually, but I hit one this time
I mean if Elon offered me the job as CEO of twitter, I would have absolutely taken it knowing full well I was set up to fail. I don’t think Linda was ignorant of that fact. Now she may suck in tons of other ways, but I don’t really see how her “performance” at the conference reflects on anyone but herself.
