What’s with all of this seemingly whitewashing of history? Slava himself described why it failed. I mean as founder you have to be laser focused. Yet he was too busy trying to win over his “hot new employee” than focusing on the database.
And then there was an article that seems to be gone from the web (https://web.archive.org/web/20201130215752/https://threader....). It stands to reason this huge distraction played a role in the mismanagement of the database and why it ultimately didn’t succeed.
Bizarre. I don't know how much of a distraction "I hired a hot girl and then fell in love with her" was, but to me tweeting 40-60 times per day says more about a lack of focus (e.g. 56 times on 30th November 2020 where that tweet came from). The deleted tweets don't go back to 2017 but if that level of tweeting is normal I wonder where he found time to do anything, let alone build a database company.
That said, I'm wasting time on HN currently. But I'm also on holiday.
What a romantic take on a failure of fiduciary duty towards ones employees and investors. Imagine being an employee there and thinking you’re going to change databases forever only to have the founder being distracted and then the whole outfit failing.
There is an archive of his deleted tweets here where he describes it: https://gist.github.com/travisbrown/059310042193a2e143408b05...
And then there was an article that seems to be gone from the web (https://web.archive.org/web/20201130215752/https://threader....). It stands to reason this huge distraction played a role in the mismanagement of the database and why it ultimately didn’t succeed.