[WisNorCan]

This is the scariest part of the whole article “during a presentation they said took months to prepare.”

This sounds like what I would expect in the federal government or IBM. Not a fast growing startup changing the world.

I hope Ryan can change this part of the culture or they are dead.

[krisoft]

Why? If they were futzing with the wording of a powerpoint for months that is indeed bad. If they worked hard on getting answers to questions nobody else can answer that can be reasonable.

After all one can describe a phd defense as “a presentation which took years to prepare.”

[mhb]

Didn't Ryan hire him?

[WisNorCan]

Steve Jobs hired John Sculley III. And then came back to rebuild the company.

[jerglingu]

Lines up with the sentiment about Flexport being a tech retirement home

[psunavy03]

Pretty provincial attitude probably propagated by some overpaid MAANG bro who doesn't realize that there's an entire industry of tech folks out there who aren't making $300K/yr TC. So if you are making that . . . a little humility is in order.