<story><title>Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan&apos;s online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports</title><url>https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-online-rant-spurs-threat-to-supe-police-reports/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BobaFloutist</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s fascinating to me the extent to which executives don&amp;#x27;t consider themselves &amp;quot;public figures&amp;quot; when it comes to potential downsides, but they do in terms of upsides.&lt;p&gt;It feels so obvious to me that the CEO of such a high-profile org should &lt;i&gt;at the very least&lt;/i&gt; quickly check public-facing social media posts against someone sensible, if not laundering them all through the experts at their org. But somehow they keep making these mistakes over and over again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ativzzz</author><text>Many CEOs are regular people who happen to be overtly charismatic to a fault. It just so happens that overtly charismatic people tend to be rewarded greatly by our social structures&lt;p&gt;These CEOs aren&amp;#x27;t doing anything different in these situations - they&amp;#x27;re being themselves and doing what they did to get their position. Other people generally don&amp;#x27;t call them out on their BS because it&amp;#x27;s an uphill battle fighting overtly charismatic people, and it&amp;#x27;s much easier to accept their flaws for the benefit of riding their coattails to the top&lt;p&gt;This is why they can&amp;#x27;t differentiate between upsides&amp;#x2F;downsides - people let them get away with things that other people can&amp;#x27;t, and to them it is all the same</text></comment>
<story><title>Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan&apos;s online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports</title><url>https://missionlocal.org/2024/01/y-combinator-ceo-garry-tans-online-rant-spurs-threat-to-supe-police-reports/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BobaFloutist</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s fascinating to me the extent to which executives don&amp;#x27;t consider themselves &amp;quot;public figures&amp;quot; when it comes to potential downsides, but they do in terms of upsides.&lt;p&gt;It feels so obvious to me that the CEO of such a high-profile org should &lt;i&gt;at the very least&lt;/i&gt; quickly check public-facing social media posts against someone sensible, if not laundering them all through the experts at their org. But somehow they keep making these mistakes over and over again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve worked for several big companies where the CEO wanted people to ask tough questions at big meetings from the rank and file and so on.  Front line managers had to prompt employees to ask question so it wasn&amp;#x27;t just awkward silence.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s telling executives would think people would just ask tough questions on demand.   It of course costs the CEO nothing to provide everyone else at the company tough questions &amp;#x2F; feedback, employees though need to consider their words carefully depending on who at a company is listening as there can be real consequences.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s one of those things that I&amp;#x27;m sure seems like it makes the executive look &amp;quot;open&amp;quot;, but rather it just shows their ignorance &amp;#x2F; are out of touch with the life of a rando worker.&lt;p&gt;Not a surprise that kind of unawareness leaks out of the workplace as they operate in a space where they are often relatively free to speak their mind.</text></comment>