I was a bit puzzled why they would even have a Boulder office, but then again, we are living through a reboot of "The Stand", so …
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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A lot of tech companies have secondary offices in other larger cities where some of their developers prefer to live. Often those people will work from home, but the corporate apparatus likes to have a small amount of offices and support staff locally. They don't need any of that... but they seem to think they do.
i find it fascinating how many rubes seem to idolize self aggrandizers - there are really millions of people in the world who think each of [Elon Musk, Kanye West, Donald Trump, many more] are 'truly geniuses' - largely because they keep telling people that they are geniuses (and pay people to repeat the myth).
Do we know what they offices were used for?
Their Boulder presence was/is mostly people who work on its API.
They should have started charging more for their API usage…
Now he's going to have to pay along with fines and fees for breaking contract.
What a smart man.