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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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542 points donohoe | 5 comments | 09 Jul 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.686s | source
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CyberMacGyver ◴[09 Jul 25 14:57 UTC] No.44510796[source]▶
One time they let her speak publicly it turned out to be a disaster. She never had any say and worst part is she was not even a good fall guy, it was clear who’s pulling the strings. The most immaterial and inconsequential hire ever.

I love all the replies on Twitter thanking her but during her time the valuation dropped 80% and they were suing advertisers for not advertising. Remarkably inept.

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1. mrtksn ◴[09 Jul 25 16:05 UTC] No.44511714[source]▶
I don't think she ever was a fall guy, Elon run a poll on should someone else be CEO of Twitter and lost the poll. It was quite entertaining, He didn't seem happy with the outcome and probably had to pay CEO level salary due to the stunt.
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2. joot82 ◴[09 Jul 25 17:57 UTC] No.44513011[source]▶
She was mainly brought on to fix relationships with advertisers, they were just pulling out that time because of rampant nazi and hate speech (by users) on the platform, after they fired the content moderation teams. I think she did what she could over the last 2 years and some of the ad revenue came back, but after the latest MechaHitler escapades I guess she got some texts from people...
3. gitremote ◴[09 Jul 25 20:08 UTC] No.44514260[source]▶
"The glass cliff is a hypothesized phenomenon in which women are more likely to break the "glass ceiling" (i.e. achieve leadership roles in business and government) during periods of crisis or downturn when the risk of failure is highest."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff

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4. mrguyorama ◴[09 Jul 25 21:08 UTC] No.44514763[source]▶
You might have a point if he didn't ignore every other one of those polls he ran.
5. snypher ◴[10 Jul 25 01:38 UTC] No.44516397[source]▶
Is this what happened at Reddit? I feel like they made some unpopular changes and used Ellen Pao as a patsy.