A selfie with Netanyahu turns into an employee and customer exodus(hardresetmedia.com)
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A selfie with Netanyahu turns into an employee and customer exodus
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You don’t need to be rich to buy a vineyard in Portugal. Many are just a normal part of a village home.
It’s possible for something to be more than one thing at the same time. You can both leave a company as a protest of its politics and move on to some other venture that you have the means for.
And anyway the article, which doesn’t dig deeper into this person’s motives, doesn’t even paint it as a protest. It could simply be not wanting to participate in harm, which is not exactly the same as a protest.
And anyway the article, which doesn’t dig deeper into this person’s motives, doesn’t even paint it as a protest. It could simply be not wanting to participate in harm, which is not exactly the same as a protest.
> A few days ago, the CEO of Vercel—an AI coding startup that, as of Tuesday, raised a $300 million Series F at a $9 billion—posted a selfie with Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. Vercel is a product for AI developers that companies like Meta are investing heavily in in order to develop their AI faster than competitors.
As an aside, when was Vercel ever an AI company? I’ve been (past tense, but I left a bit ago) a customer for years and it was a “hosting service with convenient feature bundling”.
Labeling everyone an AI company is watering down so much detail and nuance to put it lightly.
As an aside, when was Vercel ever an AI company? I’ve been (past tense, but I left a bit ago) a customer for years and it was a “hosting service with convenient feature bundling”.
Labeling everyone an AI company is watering down so much detail and nuance to put it lightly.
I saw IBM being referred to as similar (without the startup part) :)
some time ago, IBM was not only AN AI company, it was THE AI company of their time (with Deep Blue, then with Watson).
Single people without significant real-world constraints are capable of quite amazing acts of pique, or idealism, or altruism. And in today's connected world, criticism and support can be gained almost instantly. To some (significant?) fraction of the population, one's (on-line) reputation is more important than your bank account - so actions have to be viewed in this light.
A single employee tweeting "last day" is the proof of an employee exodus? Are there more?
And looking at her activity on X and LinkedIn doesn’t seem to mention anything about the selfie.
It seems very far fetched.
It seems very far fetched.
We're seeing an interesting change here in the response of Americans to the moral behavior of employers. It's always existed to some extent but it seems more pronounced.
If you can afford to buy a vineyard in Portugal, then you didn’t leave tech out of protest over Middle East politics, you retired because you’re rich. Which is fine, but don’t try to make it about Israel.