Its fair to blame Stockthon because he fired or treated to sue everyone who didn’t buy into his spiel about this being revolutionary disruption of private submarines. Leves of staff rotation were insane in this company, their lead eng. at the time of implosion was a software dev because everybody else left or was laid off.

High staff rotation is typical for such companies. Qualified person with other options, will not work in such toxic company, after CEO had racist and ageist rant!

My point is where such companies get funding?! They produce garbage and should go bankrupt pretty fast! But somehow "investors" kept feeding them money, because they are super "ethical"!

Not surprised this is posted by a throwaway account. I would think this is Rush himself, if he was alive of course.

Start-up idea: LLM service that will post online to defend you after you die.

Or nice idea for a new black mirror episode.

In the Year Of Our Lord 2025, there is no difference between the two.

various estates (e.g. Tolken, etc) already have trusts that can and do hire lawyers and even marketing firms.

in this case you'd just hire a marketing org that uses AI a lot and hope that the trust has enough money to keep them doing their job for a while

his critics were silenced? bro they were loud as hell and consistently so.

the dude did everything he could to fly under the radar, but only just enough. it is why the report is so damning -- much of what he did was just blatantly, balls-out bad, and all of the signs were there consistently.

But that person is right. Co owners, board and even layer that knowingly helped to relatiate against whistle blower with fake accusations are all guilty too. At least in the ethical sense.

Rush is dead, so it is comfortable for the above to blame only him.

The board knew about the issues. The layer knew the accusation is fake and designed to shut up the whistleblower.