I’m personal friends with some of the longstanding analyst community and today we are hosting our analyst briefings in Mexico. Ajay absolutely embarrassed himself from what they told me and now they question our long term product strategy. This guy is ki-ling us! He even threw up a slide that pretty much said that we had zero talent to begin with and are only beginning our next generation development after hiring a few of his handpicked people. I was told he was blubbering over and over and not making any sense. Can he be removed already!!!
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Market analysts are a necessary evil in any technical vertical.
Agree that some of them are just pedalling an outdated “industry” knowledge.
Interestingly, I heard that SMS was MB babysitter when she was younger
I definitely trust boomer industry analysts who get payments and free trips from companies they are covering.
@b3. Fully agree. Going to Mexico seems to be very excessive given the current climate. There are many other cities in America that would have been cheaper.
This ta-d is the chief product officer. Not the people officer. He has hired total fools while all the good talent left. I am one of the people that left, and im so happy I don’t have to deal with this monkey anymore. Leave five9 while you can. Even though the market is bad, our reputation in the industry is still good. It’s only now started to turn bad as more external people are learning how bad of leadership we have.
@b3 Margheritaville.
So we cut employee benefits and compensation but we can host an investor event in Mexico!?!?
This place is a damn joke! What a waste of money!
Ajayisms #23
“Shift from being a bee in the beehive to becoming the beekeeper.”
- Ajay Awatramani, Chief Product Officer, Five9
Hopefully they’ll still be able to have fun on the trip