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• @cydharrell Cyd Harrell on x

  same folks have been vaunting their *scale* all over the place for the last decade & a half. pretty impossible to achieve scale w/o tons of people depending on you - it's kind of what scale means. & at that point no, it's not responsible or really doable to be “scrappy” 🙄 https:/…

• @mediumjon Jon Stefaniak on x

  I feel like this happens to every company that, for better or worse, grows to a certain scale. Where energy and excitement is replaced by process and protocol. Also funny how companies say they want this but don't want to relinquish the full employee autonomy to achieve it. https…

• @shiringhaffary Shirin Ghaffary on x

  This is the first in a series of stories we're doing about major shifts in the tech industry right now. If you work in tech and want to get in touch, please email me at shirin.ghaffary@voxmedia.com. Info on how to contact me anonymously is in my Twitter bio.

• @nataliejennings Natalie Jennings on x

  “Meta... is old enough to vote. Alphabet, formerly Google, is in its mid-20s, and Amazon will soon enter its fourth decade of operations.” @ranimolla and @shiringhaffary on how the olds are trying to recapture some of that young and hungry. https://www.vox.com/...

• @eaton @eaton on x

  I remember this conversation from '01 when the consultancy I worked for laid off half the company indiscriminately and announced that we needed to return to “the old days” when we were “street fighters” who invented stuff and did big things for the “love of the game.” https://twi…

• @jdotcom @jdotcom on x

  Google is big and crappy. Facebook is even crappier than before. Amazon - just because we're big doesn't mean we can be resourceful crappy. https://twitter.com/...

• @adamclarkestes Adam Clark Estes on x

  Google: “small and scrappy” Facebook: “scrappier” Amazon: “inventive, resourceful, and scrappy” https://www.vox.com/...

• @shiringhaffary Shirin Ghaffary on x

  Big Tech companies are desperately trying to return to their “scrappy” startup roots. We talked to employees about what that's actually been like. https://www.vox.com/...

• @golikehellmachi @golikehellmachi on x

  tech is having a midlife crisis, basically, and at least some of it has been spurred on by the man having the most expensive midlife crisis in human history. https://twitter.com/...

• @jasondws Jason on x

  i.e. We want you to work like this is a startup - little to no pay & benefits & working endless hours. Fuck you. https://twitter.com/...

• @tim_stevens Tim Stevens on x

  Translation: They want employees to do more work with less resources. https://twitter.com/...

• @ranimolla Rani Molla on x

  Big Tech is trying to conjure the good old days — the “scrappy days.” Google was once “small and scrappy.” Facebook wants workers to “return to a scrappier culture.” Amazon told employees to be “inventive, resourceful, and scrappy” https://www.vox.com/...