I agree with Steve on this one though. It’s not like lmg is a small company anymore. It would be like Steve contacting a buddy at gigabyte before putting out a piece on them.
I agree with you to some degree, but I think Steve is also somewhat rightfully self-righteous. Linus shouldn’t have responded to this at all, and certainly not this hasty.
One comment under GNs video pointed out that Linus himself said you can best judge a company by their response to criticism. Well, now the owner of a company, who is not CEO anymore, responded and made things way worse, whether they like it or not.
He not only ignored large parts of the criticism and didn’t apologize for their plentiful mistakes, but fell into playing victim right away and apparently even lied. Although this might just be the result of the hasty and emotional response, this is still bad, because he’s still in an important position at the company and that stuff fell under his time as leader.
The only correct way to respond to this further would be the new CEO stepping in, saying that Linus had no authority to answer and that his answer does not reflect the stance of LMG, before discussing the matter and providing a proper answer and reaction. Why? Because nothing else would truly show that Linus doesn’t get to pick what’s official anymore. And if Linus doesn’t respect that he’s not LMG, the CEO doesn’t enforce a proper behavior by his employee and LMG doesn’t find a proper response, what credibility do they even have left?
If they don’t do something like this, Linus’ response is the official one, because it’s the one from the person with the highest authority in the company. And if that wasn’t enough, everyone will think he installed a puppet CEO from then on.
I agree with most of GN’s points, but this part really rubbed me the wrong way. I think GN really should have contacted Linus, to get his thoughts and clear up misunderstandings. When they do it like this it feels disingenuous, if you really care about the consumer then it’s in your best interest to help LTT change, not to try and deal as hard a blow as possible. It feels like they’re just want them to take the punch as hard as possible.
But I still can’t believe how bad LTT’s behaviour was when it comes to Billet labs. The rewiew was bad, but I could get over it, but to sell their best fucking prototype, that’s atrocious. It’s not just the material and time cost of building it, it’s a giant opportunity cost. It’s completely unacceptable.
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I agree with Steve on this one though. It’s not like lmg is a small company anymore. It would be like Steve contacting a buddy at gigabyte before putting out a piece on them.
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Ltt is a small company, roughly 100 people is nothing
Think of their profits & business type. Employees count doesn’t mean much here. They are big.
Sure they are big if you compare it tona smaller channel like GN, but businesses no not really
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valve has 1100 employees and is valued at 7.7 billion, ltt has 100 and got a 100 mil offer. per capita they’re bigger than valve.
Valve is still substantially larger per capita almost by a factor of 10. (by your numbers)
7.7 bil / 1100 = 7 million per employee
100 mil / 100 = 1 million per employee
Still, LTT is a sizeable company now both in the scope of their reach (millions watch them every day) and in the amount of people they employ.
I think the way LTT tore into Billet Labs was the reason for the tear down. GN gave LTT as much respect as LTT gave to Billet Labs.
I agree with you to some degree, but I think Steve is also somewhat rightfully self-righteous. Linus shouldn’t have responded to this at all, and certainly not this hasty.
One comment under GNs video pointed out that Linus himself said you can best judge a company by their response to criticism. Well, now the owner of a company, who is not CEO anymore, responded and made things way worse, whether they like it or not.
He not only ignored large parts of the criticism and didn’t apologize for their plentiful mistakes, but fell into playing victim right away and apparently even lied. Although this might just be the result of the hasty and emotional response, this is still bad, because he’s still in an important position at the company and that stuff fell under his time as leader.
The only correct way to respond to this further would be the new CEO stepping in, saying that Linus had no authority to answer and that his answer does not reflect the stance of LMG, before discussing the matter and providing a proper answer and reaction. Why? Because nothing else would truly show that Linus doesn’t get to pick what’s official anymore. And if Linus doesn’t respect that he’s not LMG, the CEO doesn’t enforce a proper behavior by his employee and LMG doesn’t find a proper response, what credibility do they even have left?
If they don’t do something like this, Linus’ response is the official one, because it’s the one from the person with the highest authority in the company. And if that wasn’t enough, everyone will think he installed a puppet CEO from then on.
I agree with most of GN’s points, but this part really rubbed me the wrong way. I think GN really should have contacted Linus, to get his thoughts and clear up misunderstandings. When they do it like this it feels disingenuous, if you really care about the consumer then it’s in your best interest to help LTT change, not to try and deal as hard a blow as possible. It feels like they’re just want them to take the punch as hard as possible.
But I still can’t believe how bad LTT’s behaviour was when it comes to Billet labs. The rewiew was bad, but I could get over it, but to sell their best fucking prototype, that’s atrocious. It’s not just the material and time cost of building it, it’s a giant opportunity cost. It’s completely unacceptable.