I thought there was something she said where she believed in the company so much, she bought in with her own money? And that they ended up giving her a board vote?
Wat? What do you think Hooli was suing PP for? Richards brain or the intellectual property of the company? Who gives two shits about Richard?
He still owns a fuckton of the company, he just wouldn't be making executive decisions which while shitty is something that does happen. He certainly hasn't been particularly competent at the business side of things.
Yes, Hooli wanted the architecture to make nucleus work, but that was a desperation play. There was no other option. Raviga HAS the software either way. Why risk firing the brains behind everything and having him go off and re-inventing it yet again even better, or risk the people they hire to come in and keep the ship afloat not understanding enough of it and making it completely unscalable? The software is not done. They are stupid to piss him off.
You do understand that software development is never ending right? And that Richard was smart enough to make his own algorithm perform twice as effectively in only a few hours, and that they've already shown the platform is not yet scalable or done and that he is the smartest one on planet earth when it comes to compression. He gave a competitor his software by explaining it in gory detail and they still can't even come close to his current software.
Are you claiming that the value of the company is Richard himself and not what he created?
Yes, yes I do. I even said so in the very first post:
I acknowledge they will probably attempt to keep him on the team, but that's risky since he doesn't want to just be a cog, he wants to have control of his company based on his brainchild. Or are all of you convinced he'd just roll over and take it and that Raviga isn't going a little too cart in front of the horse?
I am claiming that Richard is more valuable than what he created because what he created isn't finished and both of the two other companies that reverse engineered his code have showed they were incapable of creating anything that even comes close to what he can create.
And you seem to think that if he's not controlling the company he's going to what...ignore the product he has an extremely vested interest in the success of?
But piped piper doesnt have to reverse engineer anything. They have the actual algorithm.
There are people who would and people who wouldn't. Richard's character strikes me as the kind of person who doesn't care about the money as much as he cares about creating and being part of the creation of something monumental. So yes, I think he would leave the company. Everything he's done up until this point, every decision he's made and how he's acted tells me that. Are you and I watching different shows? Richard, just this very episode, showed us he'd rather delete the entire fucking platform than give it up.
You're still not understanding that the platform is not finished, software development never is, and firing the best in the world at what he does (they fired him by the way, they didn't say "we're shifting duties". And they did it over the phone) isn't a smart move and is incredibly short sighted. Especially for an investment firm that specializes in software.
Exactly, he'd care more about seeing his baby change the world than having control over the management side of things, I'm glad you are figuring this out.
What? He just told them to delete the entire goddamn thing? Did you miss that part of the episode?