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0 pointstreis5y ago0 comments

Lots of CEOs/Owners will definitely be salty about that. And they're not totally wrong to feel that way. You pay someone a bunch of money only to watch them walk and help your competitor take your market share. It's understandable why that's upsetting. But they should have the maturity to understand that's how the world works and not throw a tantrum.

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heavyset_go5y ago· 5 in thread

> You pay someone a bunch of money only to watch them walk and help your competitor take your market share. It's understandable why that's upsetting.

No, it really isn't because that's how business works. This is like getting upset that my plumber might fix my competitors' pipes, too.

treisOP5y ago

That's not at all an analogous situation

heavyset_go5y ago

A truly analogous situation would be the CEO of Repl.it working on Codeacademy Labs as an employee, a similar product to Repl.it, before leaving and launching Repl.it itself, which is what happened.

cmorgan315y ago

Yeah and well you don’t act petty and unprofessional as the CEO of any company. Tech does not get a pass on it. I fully enjoy watching an intern evoke this level of response from a well funded CEO. I was employee #1 for a start up still in business so I know how they can be your ‘baby’ but give me a break on this one... the CEO literally is projecting what he himself did onto this intern.

Exuma5y ago

Being upset about something and acting on it are 2 very different things.

I don't know many people who would not be upset about investing many hours into something only to have someone copy it in 24 hour period and repost it with only slight modifications as theirs.

Acting on that, however, is a very different story. If someone is going to act on such emotions they shouldn't be a CEO to begin with probably.

pests5y ago

If someone invested "many hours" into something for it just to be copied in 24 hours - maybe not the best idea.

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ryandrake5y ago

It’s almost entirely within the employer’s power to make it worthwhile for key employees to not leave for their competitors.

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