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idontwantthis 84 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

The easiest way to become a F500 company is to start as an F5 company, then financialize your whole business, stop innovating, fire anyone effective, and give the executives huge bonuses.

marcosdumay 84 days ago [–]

Well, if you also put barriers to integration and hire more executives you can turn it into 3 or 4 F5000 companies instead.

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