The buzz out of the Code Conference this week is, naturally, all about the disastrous performance of X / Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino, who closed out the two-day affair in spectacular fashion. Vox’s Peter Kafka, who has been going to the conference since it started in 2008, called it “the weirdest session I’ve ever seen.” If I had to sum up the vibe as everyone trickled off to dinner afterward, it would be stunned disbelief. As for Yaccarino, she immediately fled the premises with her six-person security detail.
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tookpractically begged for the job, no sympathy.research has indicated that women and other minorities view risky job offers as the only chance they are likely to get.
There’s risky, and then there’s walking into a blender. This tends towards the latter.
I mean if Elon offered me the job as CEO of twitter, I would have absolutely taken it knowing full well I was set up to fail. I don’t think Linda was ignorant of that fact. Now she may suck in tons of other ways, but I don’t really see how her “performance” at the conference reflects on anyone but herself.
