Pros
- Fastest growing enterprise company of all time (for a time)
-IPO
- Growing to 3 million users
- Original vision of accelerating human achievement
Cons
A once bright company’s potential has been ruined by terrible strategy, lack of concern for users, constant layoffs, and a blinding ignorance of our own stated cultural values.
I’ll call out my own Product team who continues to publish hard to use tech. Gone are the days when we valued ensuring products were easily deployable by real users. In the era of “vibe coding” it’s not acceptable to have a product stack where even established developers regularly say “wtf” when trying to do basic platform operations.
Product marketing has also had a dramatic decline. The team, now under Product, went from being globally recognized to led by a buzzword buzzard whose only “original” thoughts are copied and pasted from ChatGPT.
There’s been a terrible loss of morale across the team, and I lament what could’ve been. Half of my colleagues have either left, or are plotting their escapes.
For the sake of the good people who remain, I hope Daniel is able to right the ship.