Sam is not an asshole. His twitter is great, he's definitely opinionated, and if you haven't had the luck of meeting him you might misread his tone as grumpy. It's not. It's sarcastic/dry humour and honest.
Perhaps he's quite nice over zoom, but since very few of us are going to meet him in that context, the rest of us are left to judge him by what he posts. And as they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression.
Based on what I've read so far, with his shit-talking the competition, he seems like... a bit of an asshole.
> he just comes off as funny on twitter once you've met him.
Never heard of the guy before today, but his dickish, edge-lord aura (on X and in this thread) makes me not want to meet him. If I had to choose between buying from him, or some other random dude, I'll hear out the random dude first.
There's obviously more to the story than outsiders are aware, but personally it just leaves a bit of sour taste in my mouth when the tech and blog posts you guys put out are amazing.
Sam is not an asshole. His twitter is great, he's definitely opinionated, and if you haven't had the luck of meeting him you might misread his tone as grumpy. It's not. It's sarcastic/dry humour and honest.
They build good stuff and care.
You can build good stuff, care, and be very opinionated...you can also be all of those things and still be an asshole.
being opinionated doesn't mean you can attack people you compete or don't like every other week
His X.com persona is def that of an asshole.
very kind of you to say tony
He's actually quite nice over zoom so he just comes off as funny on twitter once you've met him.
Perhaps he's quite nice over zoom, but since very few of us are going to meet him in that context, the rest of us are left to judge him by what he posts. And as they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression.
Based on what I've read so far, with his shit-talking the competition, he seems like... a bit of an asshole.
> he just comes off as funny on twitter once you've met him.
Never heard of the guy before today, but his dickish, edge-lord aura (on X and in this thread) makes me not want to meet him. If I had to choose between buying from him, or some other random dude, I'll hear out the random dude first.
> If I had to choose between buying from him, or some other random dude, I'll hear out the random dude first.
If you have such luxuries, I bet you don't have enough scale to be really profitable for him.
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I can fully understand why someone would think that.
There's obviously more to the story than outsiders are aware, but personally it just leaves a bit of sour taste in my mouth when the tech and blog posts you guys put out are amazing.
(I'm a paying PS customer)
Genuine question, since I'm a little out of the loop; why do you say that?
https://x.com/samlambert/status/2098069474205470970?s=20
https://x.com/samlambert/status/2098075451373834681?s=20
nothing i have said is untrue. a founder of a company leaving to compete out of greed is a bad thing and i am glad to call it out.
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I, for one, like it when CEOs let loose a bit and show some personality. It's better than everyone walking around talking like a media trained robot.