imo, the way you first do something + your first responses to serious criticism are the most telling regarding character. because afterwards, you can just play the act of "we're sorry because the backlash was really big and we have to clean up".
They are experienced software developers coming from $300K jobs at Coinbase. As experienced developers they know the requirements in the Apache License 2.0. As former employees at highly regulated Fintech companies like Coinbase they know better than letting ChatGPT make up new legal texts.
They are cynical manipulators hiding behind a made up fictive "careless Gen Z tech bros" image.
I mean... crypto companies are well known for being chock full of decent and honest employees who aren’t zealots or bandwagon jumpers in any way, shape or form.
Just like a lot of recently created “AI” companies.
Coinbase internally had the `oh anyone who wants to work on crypto would want to work at Coinbase, you are already at Coinbase, wow, look at you, such a good place you have for yourself` speech given out relatively often. Even after employees commented on how they think they are being underpaid.
The compensation is on the low-end when it comes to what Coinbase pays to its employees. They wronged their hires on multiple occasions with dilutions too. Many of these employees had strike prices that were above what Coinbase IPO'd at. They were relying on their options, otherwise their base pay was undermarket.
> As experienced developers they know the requirements in the Apache License 2.0.
I’ve worked at a company with hundreds of devs where I caught an obvious error (a reference to a section that did not exist) in the pre-employment agreement. To imply that most devs are carefully reading documentation in general, much less legalese, is laughable.
But when you're starting or running a business, carefully reading contracts is a critical activity for the success of the business. If the founders can't do this themselves, they should have their attorney do it for them. And if they don't have an attorney, that's a critical error as well and they need one ASAP.
