<story><title>Onlive CEO fires staff, then donates $50,000 to health insurance fund</title><url>https://www.wepay.com/donations/ex-onlive-cobra-fund</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wilschroter</author><text>Last week at this time it was popular to pile on Onlive&apos;s CEO to say &quot;he fired everyone and stole the company!&quot;.&lt;p&gt;No one asked &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; he did it.  The common thread was &quot;he was greedy!&quot;&lt;p&gt;That really pisses me off.  We come to find out a week later that the company was days away from total insolvency and that structuring an ABC to deal with $40 million of debt was the only way to keep anyone&apos;s jobs.  It&apos;s a brutally painful place to be.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes people do awful things for simple and awful reasons.  But I believe that&apos;s rare.  I believe some people are forced to do awful things that they would never otherwise do given the option.  I think in this case people didn&apos;t want to know, or perhaps didn&apos;t care to know &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; it happened.  They just wanted to blame someone.&lt;p&gt;I fear the media&apos;s growing lack of interest in the why.</text></comment>
<story><title>Onlive CEO fires staff, then donates $50,000 to health insurance fund</title><url>https://www.wepay.com/donations/ex-onlive-cobra-fund</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tomasien</author><text>If you want to stay a leader, this is how you do it. Treat every single person who sacrifices their time for you like family. That&apos;s a leader.</text></comment>