[throw9394944]

> This was a disaster of organization with messianic CEO dismissing all concerns with bravado

While I love this list, I do not like that you are blaming everything on CEO.

This company followed current ethical policies, and used them to exclude actual experts and skilled people. CEO operated in environment that supports this behaviour, and only cares about irelevant metrics!

[Ralfp]

Its fair to blame Stockthon because he fired or treated to sue everyone who didn’t buy into his spiel about this being revolutionary disruption of private submarines. Leves of staff rotation were insane in this company, their lead eng. at the time of implosion was a software dev because everybody else left or was laid off.

[throw9394944]

High staff rotation is typical for such companies. Qualified person with other options, will not work in such toxic company, after CEO had racist and ageist rant!

My point is where such companies get funding?! They produce garbage and should go bankrupt pretty fast! But somehow "investors" kept feeding them money, because they are super "ethical"!

[avgDev]

Not surprised this is posted by a throwaway account. I would think this is Rush himself, if he was alive of course.

[tokai]

Start-up idea: LLM service that will post online to defend you after you die.

[throw9394944]

Maybe listen to some of his interviews. His opinion about "old" experts is on record. And old Oceangate HR pages are still in archives.

But again, this is not juzt about CEO (he deserves the blame), but why he was able to operate for so long, and why his critics vere silenced!