Sting Cool

i can’t imagine letting linus flail his hand around with that amd prototype board. I would think all the engineers touching it are required to be in a cleanish room and anti static arms straps with suits.

Terrible Truth

@Ahmad Muraish It’s a 2-way street. Investors have to keep the pressure up to make sure something is actually produced. No customer or investor will wait forever if the product gets stuck in development hell.

P_ Mouse

I agree, I mean obviously this is all promotional. But at least they seem to be aware of what LTT is doing, probably watch their videos and understand the context of it all. Which is pretty rare to see for most companies even, even more for CEO’s.
With other companies they often seem so out of touch with even their own products.

LakeVermilionDreams

I had to remove components from 3 out of the four sides of an HP LaserJet 4000 DN to replace the power supply unit. NOT FUN! I don’t care if a Framework printer is the size of my first vacuum tube television cabinet, if it’s easy to repair, clean, upgrade, I’d buy one in a heartbeat!

TheIyudha

don’t forget those ink cartridge are region locked also (although i wonder how they region lock the ink tank version of their printers?)

Jourei

Oh dang! Imagine being able to swap the ink cartridge! HP would be mad.

si2foo

he also has pretty darn good screen presence for someone who is clearly not a presenter type person.

dzzope

It’s kinda like every massive tech giant.. starts with engineers making stuff thats great to making profits… Hopefully LTT & Framework never go down that road.

When engineers (or generaly people passionate about the product) are in charge, companies can make some truely amazing things..
When they sell to investors (privately or going public), that has a tendency to change things over time.

Dustin Rodriguez

There’s a world of difference between CEO of private companies and CEOs of publicly-traded companies… the publicly-traded company ones are basically just figureheads put in place to do the bidding of Goldman Sachs and to collect gigantic paychecks as a signal to investors that the company is doing well. One of the things I like about AMD is that because they spent so long getting almost bankrupted by those “professional” CEOs that eventually they were willing to actually hand the company over to an actual engineer (Dr. Su) in an act of desperation. Since she is a PhD-bearing engineer and business is one of the simplest topics in the universe in comparison, she just had to spend like a weekend learning about business stuff and then was able to immediately reorient the company to actually center around engineering excellence and boom, took off like a rocket. I imagine by now she’s probably having to get into knife-fights with bankers to keep out the parasite MBAs who would want to get in and start slashing and burning for tiny short term gains at the expense of long-term corporate survival (those types of CEOs hop from company to company every 3-4 years, so they’re fine with cutting a throat that won’t bleed out for 10).

Nerē

Weird to think a lot of CEOs are lacking in the department

RandomUser

sigh.. is the tradeshow content now _finally_ over? it’s the weekend already, can we now just please go back to regular content?

Chicken (Fried)

@RandomUser You may dislike them, but many (myself included) would enjoy at least one more.

Vlad The Lad

nah not that pfp

Mr. Hanfblatt

@Ronas yes, sadly so. Chieve Executive Officer (CEO) isnt “Founder”. Companies with a board sometimes change through CEO’s like i change my underwear: maybe once a year. There are even companies BUYING a certain CEO in hopes of him getting it back on its feet.

The Tech Nexus

Agreed! I miss the old days of being able to add and remove things from laptops and other devices.

Odin’s Sons Gaming (Alcoholicbiker96)

Same here