I grew up in Utah which has a certain religious culture mixed in entrepreneurship. Very good salespeople but not always morally right depending on your beliefs. The broadway show “The Book of Mormon” is a good satire as to what I’m talking about. But lived experience is better.
Also I knew of him and his early employees from his involvement in a bootcamp called DevMountain in Provo. Interesting concepts were applied there and their practices were very distasteful in my opinion such as having a previous cohort student teaching the upcoming cohort and inflating LinkedIn recommendations with the current classmates to land jobs.
Like it isn’t wrong to do, but it isn’t right either. Following Lambda over the years showed all of these patterns to larger extents.
