Hmmm, we have a company who’s success has been largely due to it’s large network of developers and the outgoing CEO tried to destroy that community… Who should replace them? Oh, I know, someone who took another company who’s success was based on a large network of developers and successfully killed that community
I bet if we mapped out the relationships between various CEOs and boards of directors we could predict these selections rather well…
Which I get - I’m starting the candidate gathering stage for a fairly senior role and the pool of candidates I have to choose from is already quite small given the requirements and niche product and of course I am going to defer to those I have worked with in the past as I know what they can do. I just find it funny that when faced with a very specific issue that unity picked someone who has a track record of fumbling that exact issue
This dude is just an interim CEO, and he’s only an interim CEO for Unity because he’s a special contractor for the largest investing company in Unity. He’s only there to do normal duties while the board looks for a full time CEO.
So, when this guy eventually fucks up the company even more, can they fire him and hire the ex-CEO of Quibi? Or maybe the asshole from Mattel who made that horrible D&D licensing agreement?
Oh, oh, I know… Steve Huffman! Perfect fit!
It’s funny you joke about Quibi because those people all went over to Airtable and what do you know, they have turned a great product into a loser because they have no idea how to get their shit together and actually go public. They’re past their series F - they’ve got nowhere to go and the CFO only knows how to fund raise and she gutted their finance department that was actually working to get them compliant enough to go public. A couple years ago or so they fired their controller who specializes in taking companies public and it’s been downhill since.
Sorry for the rant but this is the world and people I work with and have had a front row seat to the shit show (well, more like a few rows back)
So basically the guy who sold Red Hat out to IBM. Yeah this is going to end well.
Honestly its a lost cause. They got investment now its time to grip and squeeze.
Try godot.
I’ve posted this elsewhere but I’ll say it again: I nominate Keijiro Takahashi as the interim CEO. I don’t think there are many who understand unity at a 1:1 mindmeld level like that. Set a new set of goals, get LTS into actual LTS shape, unify the pipelines, restore confidence, save the princess, drive the darkness from the lands and forge a path to profitability that doesn’t alienate unity’s most valuable asset, the community.
UNITY MUST CLEAN HOUSE, NEW BOARD AND CEO. Otherwise we’re going to just cycle through this bullshit with different clowns at the wheel.
Otherwise we’re going to just cycle through this bullshit with different clowns at the wheel.
Why not pretend that Unity is a lost cause and move on? They have permanent lost your trust for life.
If you are still developing on Unity, it’s because you’re addicted to it. Switch engines now!
Yeah a few steps ahead of you bud, neck deep in openxr on godot now.
edit:
tho thanks for the smarmy ‘you’re addicted’ - you realize people have projects in progress? that swapping engines isn’t trivial?
thanks for your silly concern tho. perhaps work on the way you talk to folks.
I understand that, but people who are stuck with Unity should work towards getting rid of it. Mostly finished games won’t be able to, but new games can.
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