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520 points kevinyew | 2 comments | 04 Sep 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.45s | source
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julianozen ◴[04 Sep 25 14:09 UTC] No.45127468[source]▶
Lots of respect to Josh Miller, the CEO. TBC got to a difficult place. They built a product that was very very good, but evidently not good enough to support the capital they raised or the workforce they hired.

I wish they had managed to keep Arc around. It's a product I'd glad pay for, and it seems like maybe there are enough fans that subscriptions could've supported a smaller team. Hopefully Atlassian doesn't kill it after 5 months

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sniffers ◴[04 Sep 25 14:35 UTC] No.45127761[source]▶
Scuttlebutt is Josh Miller is pretty unpleasant to work with and believes Dia is like a holy revelation or something (rather than a chrome extension that calls ChatGPT for you).

What respect does delusions of grandeur and crashing out at Atlassian deserve?

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1. don_neufeld ◴[04 Sep 25 15:08 UTC] No.45128153[source]▶
Curious what you’ve heard.

I certainly enjoyed working with him and Hurst in the early days at Obvious 2.0 when we were incubating Branch.

A bunch of Medium & Obvious 2.0 alumni I respect work or worked at TBC (Dustin, DanB, Connor, Cemre, maybe others).

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2. sniffers ◴[05 Sep 25 06:17 UTC] No.45135488[source]▶
I've heard when things got tight, empathy vanished. When things were great he was great, if a bit overzealous about Dia. When things got hard, you better hope you were the kind of person he liked or you'd find yourself out the door quickly, no matter what your output was.