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decentespresso.com/blog/employees_suck In December 2008, Loïc Le Meur invited me to speak at LeWeb in Paris. I'd spent a dozen years running a 50-person company that made good money and made me miserable, and then built Magnatune and BookMooch — real businesses, break-even and profitable, with essentially no employees. So I gave a deliberately provocative talk called "Employees Suck" about a completely different model for running a company, and running your life.
decentespresso.com/blog/employees_suck In December 2008, Loïc Le Meur invited me to speak at LeWeb in Paris. I'd spent a dozen years running a 50-person company that made good money and made me miserable, and then built Magnatune and BookMooch — real businesses, break-even and profitable, with essentially no employees. So I gave a deliberately provocative talk called "Employees Suck" about a completely different model for running a company, and running your life.
