I would be interested in semantic analysis of the communication from the involved online personas, similar to what was done for Satoshi, to point to a cultural direction. Would also be interesting to see if there were semantic style differences over time pointing to different people acting as the personas.
Since it would be quite a lot of code that has been committed as well, would also be interesting to see if code style differences could be found pointing to more people involved than only one.
Since when does does satisfying curiosity not provide any value. This has the potential to be a real life spy story ffs. Yeah you won't know anything for sure, that doesn't make this any less interesting.
Has anyone studied yet how well this kind of analysis holds up to simply asking GPT to rephrase your words? The whole thing goes out the window if that kind of attack works nowadays.
Thomas E. Ricks main hypothesis is that the US failures in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq can be attributed to the culture of firing under-performing disappearing.
It mirrors what I've seen in a lot of organizations as well, under-performing executives keeping their jobs when they shouldn't.
I’ve worked at a $100 million revenue online company that didn’t make any profit. OP says money is tight after covid, so seems like it the business is connected to a (physical) market that was affected by the pandemic. He says there is an extensive roadmap by a management team that are not familiar with the technical details, so it seems like the technology is not the core business.
It’s not difficult getting to a high revenue fueled by aggressive and expensive acquisition using money from investors who gets dazzled by growth numbers, but if your customer lifetime value is low and you’re not a pure SAAS business which means margins won’t automatically improve with scale, turning that company profitable can prove very difficult.
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Since it would be quite a lot of code that has been committed as well, would also be interesting to see if code style differences could be found pointing to more people involved than only one.