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This seems like a bit of a reach. "Move fast and break things" to me means take risks, don't get bogged down in process or do the same thing everyone else is doing. I don't see how you get from that to stabbing people. Your other quote is nice but it's a bit silly to apply it to a literal stabbing.

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When the person stabbed was the CTO of a company just accused a week earlier of fraud and facilitating illegal transactions, it may not be that silly.

https://hindenburgresearch.com/block/

This is extremely unhelpful speculation, Bob Lee had not been a part of Square/Block for many years before the incident, if this was truly connected to the facilitation of money laundering and fraud, why target an ex-CTO of all people?

Thank you, I’ll need to look into it more.

The report is about the use of user number fraud and illegal transactions to enable key early insiders to cash out and leave the company in decline. That said, it looks like most of the accusations in the report are after he left the company.

i'm not sure what you call the situation where someone just says something with 0 basis but wants to sound like they are making some kind of critical point. it's akin to journalism where they ask a question in the title, and because it's a question, they're legally allowed to post it even if it's completely incorrect and has a 99% chance that the answer is "No"

Move fast and break things can also mean "undermine political systems, enable genocide, and damage the psychology of all generations that grow up in the digital era, for profit." So it's not as far of a reach to stabbing people as you want to believe.

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