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> We've moved our entire web presence to GitHub to become even more transparent. Here, you can see how things have changed over time, propose improvements, or even take our ideas and make them your own..

Sorry but to me this is screwy. Why do I have to spend time navigating github to find basic info about the firm if I am just curious? Why is it beneficial or implied that anyone who is anyone knows the secret handshake of finding what they need by finding it in this manner? Why is it not possible to have transparency with a 'normal' website and then if there is a reason point people to github?

From wikipedia:

"Bloomberg Beta consists of six full-time employees: Roy Bahat, Karin Klein, James Cham, Shivon Zillis, Morgan Polotan and Shaina Conners. Bahat was previously the President of IGN Entertainment and was the chairman of Ouya Inc. until June 2015."

The github site says nothing about who these people are either. Sorry they are not 'well known enough' to present this way. This is not 'everyone knows who Bill Gates is'.

Example: https://github.com/KarinK

This is not transparency it is the opposite.



There are links to each of their twitter/linkedin/blog and other relevant pages listed next to their names in the section "Who we are".


You can't do pull requests on a normal website. IMO, it is a nice experiment.


They're part of an insider club, if you're an insider you'll know who they are.

These are the kind of people wear their graduation rings upside down so you'll feel the chunk of metal in the handshake.


If we don’t known them, we need to get in touch with people they may know. who we most likely don’t know either, esp if the circle is small and keeps helping friends of theirs.




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