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Absolutely I can shed some light on that - I don’t know if you’ve ever worked in a medium-sized company with over 100 employees, but it’s pretty commonplace for communications to break down, and for bits and pieces to be put on the wrong shelf or otherwise misplaced, leading to mistakes like this. This goes double when everyone is rushing around trying to hit deadlines.
In further support of the point, consider the amount of money they would have raised from the auction, vs the revenue and profits of LMG as a whole. I think it’s entirely reasonable to believe Linus does in fact care about a few hundred bucks outlay of company money; I don’t think it’s reasonable to believe he’d knowingly order what you rightly call a crime, knowing it would screw over a small company, just to make a few hundred bucks for charity.
We’d all like to believe that IT-based organisations are too professional to cock up, but they do, all the time. Dell, Google, and Microsoft are examples of large companies known for being organisational dumpster fires. It’s nearly impossible to run a company without stuff slipping through the cracks at some point. As Steve points out in his video, GN is guilty of making mistakes too (just not ones that result in them selling someone else’s prototype hardware… yet). The difference is in how those mistakes are handled.
I’m working in a company with over 10000 employees. Nobody would ever “accidentally” sell a prototype from another company. Let alone lie to that company about sending it back.
Absolutely I can shed some light on that - I don’t know if you’ve ever worked in a medium-sized company with over 100 employees, but it’s pretty commonplace for communications to break down, and for bits and pieces to be put on the wrong shelf or otherwise misplaced, leading to mistakes like this. This goes double when everyone is rushing around trying to hit deadlines.
In further support of the point, consider the amount of money they would have raised from the auction, vs the revenue and profits of LMG as a whole. I think it’s entirely reasonable to believe Linus does in fact care about a few hundred bucks outlay of company money; I don’t think it’s reasonable to believe he’d knowingly order what you rightly call a crime, knowing it would screw over a small company, just to make a few hundred bucks for charity.
We’d all like to believe that IT-based organisations are too professional to cock up, but they do, all the time. Dell, Google, and Microsoft are examples of large companies known for being organisational dumpster fires. It’s nearly impossible to run a company without stuff slipping through the cracks at some point. As Steve points out in his video, GN is guilty of making mistakes too (just not ones that result in them selling someone else’s prototype hardware… yet). The difference is in how those mistakes are handled.
I’m working in a company with over 10000 employees. Nobody would ever “accidentally” sell a prototype from another company. Let alone lie to that company about sending it back.