Subj : Re: Cloudstrike/Windows BSOD, looks pretty serious
To   : kirkspragg
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Jul 24 2024 06:44 am

-=> kirkspragg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 pF>  Interesting to note that Crowdstrike's CTO was Mcafee's CTO when the
 pF>  same thing happened with Mcafee AV in the 2010s.

 ki> Oooh that is interesting. I remember that around that time Mcaffee's
 ki> reputation took a pretty sharp dive due to a string of issues as their
 ki> anti-virus software became closer & closer to being malware itself.

 ki> That bodes ill for Cloudstrike's future.

One correction. He was Mcafee's CTO in 2010 and CrowdStrike's CEO in
2024. Talk about failing upwards!

One guy who's career I've followed was Steven Elop. His career is quite
the example of failing upwards. I first ran into him at Macromedia when
was brought on and quickly promoted to COO. During the negotiations with
Adobe, Elop was made CEO. He was brought on board to Adobe, worked for a
little over a year (just enough time for accelerated vesting) and cashed
out a 1.8 million dollar severance on a 500K salary.

He worked at Juniper Networks for exactly a year and a day, cashing out
his stock. Elop was being prepared to be named CEO when he left for
Microsoft.

While at Microsoft, he was in charge of Office and formed an alliance
with Nokia to bring office to Symbian OS.

Microsoft pressured Nokia to hire him as their CEO, the first
non-Finnish CEO. He was paid a $6 million signing bonus, $1.4 million
salary, plus compensation for lost income from Microsoft.

During his tenure, the stock tanked and their smartphone market share
dropped from 33% to 3% and the company lost $4.9 billion euros.

He wrote a memo trashing the current platform that was leaked to the
press and promised a new platform via an alliance with Microsoft.

He then chose Microsoft phone as a platform for Nokia, scrapping the
Symbian OS that was their basis. When asked why not Android, he said
they wanted to differentiate the market.

Instead, he laid off 21,000 people, closed plants and was widely seen
as a trojan horse. In 2013, Microsoft bought a gutten Nokia.

His deal was revised on the day of the signing, and he received a 18.8
million euro bonus after he stepped down as CEO.

He was hired back at Microsoft in 2014 and laid off in 2015.



The amount of money people were willing to pay this guy is unreal.



 
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