I genuinely don't understand comments like this. Do you know who wrote the letter? Do you know how much they get paid?
Communications is a real skill with actual, real people that devote their careers to doing it well. And they get paid fairly, unless you know something I don't.
Nobody wants to write this letter, least of all the PR person who wrote it.
What would you have the CEO say, if not what they all say when this happens? "Our business isn't growing like we hoped now get fucked"?
Seriously, what do you think that looks like if not exactly what was written?
> We sped up our hiring to catch up with our growth and started many new businesses in response to feedback from our audiences.
> Most of our investments are paying off, and while we’ve always been disciplined in how we have managed our business and operational metrics, we were not as rigorous as we should have been in managing our team growth
> While our business continues to grow fast, given how quickly we hired, our operating expenses – if left unabated – would continue to outgrow our revenue.
We grew too fast and revenue wasn't catching up. What other tangibles do you want? Would they somehow help the situation?
I don't at all. I'm just trying to figure out what people are supposed to be doing. And I was mostly responding to the comment of "obscenely paid PR hacks" in the first place...just unnecessarily cynical.
It was a long letter b/c it provided a lot of information. The information you're asking for was wrapped up in 3 sentences. But I guess that was still too long?
If it's not apologetic, they get reamed for being too cold/unsympethetic.
I genuinely don't understand comments like this. Do you know who wrote the letter? Do you know how much they get paid?
Communications is a real skill with actual, real people that devote their careers to doing it well. And they get paid fairly, unless you know something I don't.
Nobody wants to write this letter, least of all the PR person who wrote it.
What would you have the CEO say, if not what they all say when this happens? "Our business isn't growing like we hoped now get fucked"?