LinusLTT

...yet

To this day I have not watched it. It sounds corny, but when I told my staff that I felt the integrity of the Honest Answers would be compromised if I had any part in the making of the video - or even watched it - I meant it.

I will never watch it as long as I and everyone in it works at LMG.

I've actually exchanged emails with them already and I have a call with some folks over there sometime this week to discuss my concerns. There was a lot of concern from members of our community that our criticism of Intel would negatively affect our relationship with them or our business moving forward..

But I think that's not giving Intel enough credit. They are big girls and boys and can absolutely take the constructive criticism with the praise.

And in response to the folks who didn't understand why our workstations are using Intel after that video.. Even if I don't agree with their strategy, I respect that they build world class technology and I'm not going to stop recommending their products just because we're having a bit of a spat at the moment.

Actually yes. Especially at the beginning financial institutions were pretty wary of doing business with us since they didn't really understand our model.. and even now they worry about what would happen if I died for example and want me to have insurance that can cover the full amount of any loan.

That's what happens when a business is quite reliant on one person, which is a big part of why we've built out a (very talented) staff to help me if something ever did go wrong.

My favorite noodle place in Aberdeen mall shut down because the owner/operator broke his arm. That taught me a lot about the difference between running a business and building a company.

We are almost to the point where if I got hit by a bus tomorrow it would be unfortunate and uncomfortable.. but I think everyone could keep their job and the company could survive without me.

It's a matter of time. We've actually reached out to the brand that makes the sandals I wear about doing an LTT edition sandal. They got back to us saying it "didn't align with their brand values" or something to that effect.

I was like "WHAT?? The ONLY person on EARTH who proudly rocks your dad sandals as a keystone of his image and supporting that is not part of your brand values?? What ARE your brand values??"