unethical_ban
12 hours ago
Hatchet man for Bezos. Now someone slightly more affable, maybe even an insider, will get the job but all the damage is done.
zerocrates
12 hours ago
It's the former Tumblr CEO. Technically a promotion from within but he was a recent hire as CFO.
tankenmate
12 hours ago
There's a litany of such characters over the years; Al Dunlap comes to mind and his tenure at Consolidated Press Holdings.
SilverElfin
11 hours ago
Is this actually a strategy that is more common now? Trump is famous for this - he does outrageous things and then throws someone under the bus. That person leaves, they take all the reputational damage, Trump continues. Maybe Bezos and other billionaires are looking at Trump and thinking “Maybe I should go that far as well”?
estearum
7 hours ago
Ever watched literally any mob movie ever?
You're describing classic criminal enterprise org management.
It's such a typical pattern that RICO statutes have a specific mechanism ("vicarious liability") to still go after criminal leaders when they engage in this behavior.
transcriptase
9 hours ago
Yes if there’s anything Trump has been known for since the 80s it’s his sterling positive reputation and putting others in the spotlight.
C’mon… there’s no reason to hallucinate information like ChatGPT circa 2022.
bigstrat2003
8 hours ago
> there’s no reason to hallucinate information like ChatGPT circa 2022
It still does that today, unfortunately. A smart man does not trust an LLM further than he can throw it.