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ecib  ·  1517 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Brian Armstrong: Coinbase is a mission focused company

I thought the sports team analogy was a particularly bad one, given that the current social justice movement dealing with precisely these issues was spearheaded by professional sports team players, and there isn't a single championship team that doesn't have players (employees) putting this at the front and center, to the point of actually disrupting business if they have to. While still working together winning rings.

Like...why did you compare your ideal culture as it relates to social justice, to orgs that could not possibly be more philosophically opposed to your own, saying you want to be like them?

I get what he was going for, but the whole thing felt like a self-own. It's messy and hard, but it's important to people (aka employees), and socially responsible stances by corporations are as old as dirt.