TL;DR Kik's VC says that their messenger is shutting down (but their cryptocurrency is intact).
He ends the blog post with:
> I will end this with a quote that the founder of one of our portfolio companies sent me this week. I think it sums it up nicely.
> My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I am attacking.
Were I a newly unemployed engineer on the messenger team, and I'd just been described as "giving way" or "in retreat", I think I'd file that under adding insult to injury. That seems kind of tone deaf.
Fair point. I think Fred meant the comment more for the founder mentality of not giving up etc. Given that a lot of his readership is founder/investors vs. typical startup employees, maybe that's OK?
And while tone deaf to a newly unemployed engineer, I'll risk downvotes to say that perhaps it's not a bad attitude for them to take either. Yes, this is really shitty and the immediate outlook doesn't look great, but go on attack, don't sit around / wallow, go make something happen! etc.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 29.4 ms ] threadHe ends the blog post with:
> I will end this with a quote that the founder of one of our portfolio companies sent me this week. I think it sums it up nicely.
> My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I am attacking.
Were I a newly unemployed engineer on the messenger team, and I'd just been described as "giving way" or "in retreat", I think I'd file that under adding insult to injury. That seems kind of tone deaf.
And while tone deaf to a newly unemployed engineer, I'll risk downvotes to say that perhaps it's not a bad attitude for them to take either. Yes, this is really shitty and the immediate outlook doesn't look great, but go on attack, don't sit around / wallow, go make something happen! etc.