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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after app update debacle (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The company said it would cost between $20 million and $30 million to fix these issues and decided to cut about 6% of its staff.

...... Right...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes let's fire the people that can fix the problem

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

And give the CEO $1.9 mil in severance on his way out for fucking everything up.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/sonos-ceo-behind-disastrous-app-exits-with-1-9-million-severance/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

If the contract says that's, that's what he's owed, otherwise they should fire him for a good cause and risk going to court