SendGrid Blog
blog.sendgrid.com · Company blog · on HN since 2010
SendGrid's company blog, covering its email delivery service, developer tools, pricing, and company statements.
What HN saysHN links it mainly for SendGrid's statement confirming it fired Adria Richards, which commenters cite to show the news was real.
26HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1SendGrid fires Adria Richards?6 people · 196 points · first shared 2013 · 80 comments on HN
- 2A Difficult Situation4 people · 587 points · first shared 2013 · 432 comments on HN
- 3Why you should not use [email protected] in your emails2 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 4SendGrid Responds to Amazon's Simple Email Service1 people · 64 points · first shared 2011 · 42 comments on HN
- 5I want to code, not configure mail servers1 people · 16 points · first shared 2011 · 16 comments on HN
- 6Personal Productivity for Developers1 people · 16 points · first shared 2013 · 5 comments on HN
- 7Loader.io, a new free application load testing service, created by SendGrid Labs1 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · 4 comments on HN
- 8New Pricing for Email Infrastructure at SendGrid1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 9Why you should not use [email protected] in your emails1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 10Why We Open Sourced Our Documentation1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · 2 comments on HN
- 11Beta Testers Wanted: Learn how your emails perform across common ISPs.1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12What's Forging Now in England's 'Steel City'1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 13Transactional Email: The dedicated ip debate1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 14My boss knows Node1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 15How to Use Your Words: The Pros and Cons of Plain Text Email1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
collypops · 2013-03-22
You're a bit behind in the news. It looks like things will work out OK for the guy [1], and the girl did get fired [2].
As a footnote, public shaming was how we got into this mess in the first place, so I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681
[2]: http://blog.sendgrid.com/a-difficult-situation/
themartorana · 2013-03-21
Statement on their website: http://blog.sendgrid.com/sendgrid-statement/
vivin · 2013-03-21
It's not fake. They just confirmed it on their site:
http://blog.sendgrid.com/sendgrid-statement/
My post on this was deleted as well:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416106
minimaxir · 2013-03-21
See this: http://blog.sendgrid.com/sendgrid-statement/
Check the author, it's posted by the CEO.
nwh · 2013-03-21
There's four instances of the message now. There's no way it is fake.
http://blog.sendgrid.com/sendgrid-statement/
http://status.sendgrid.com/
https://twitter.com/SendGrid/statuses/314768776577036288
https://www.facebook.com/SendGrid/posts/10151502570463967
peripetylabs · 2013-03-21
There is a statement on the SendGrid blog confirming:
http://blog.sendgrid.com/sendgrid-statement/
grease · 2011-04-28
EDIT: Just found this ... http://blog.sendgrid.com/why-you-should-not-use-noreplydomain-com-in-y…
singleuse · 2013-03-22
She publicly posted without consent a picture and an incriminating comment in an increasingly context of being touchy and wary about gender issues at tech conferences.
Of course this has a significant potential for HR to do PR and distance themselves from their employee in an attempt to save the company image and avoid a potential pro-feminist backlash. Though I agree play haven overreacted, from their despicable business activity it's not that surprising, and past similar experiences points towards this as almost predictable and expected.
But for a dev evangelist, this was highly inconsiderate and irresponsible thing to do, it looks like she didn't care about the consequences of what she did, and got fired over it. Which makes sense too, as explained by sendgrid here: http://blog.sendgrid.com/a-difficult-situation/ she did it all wrong, made her employer look bad, had the opposite effect of what her job position asks for, render herself ineffective at her job in the future, and inadvertently endangered her employer business.
timv · 2013-03-21
> she was just fired herself over her actions.
Do you actually know what she was fired over? All I've seen in a statement that her employment was terminated.
For all I know the situation went like this:
SendGrid: We think you handled this situation badly, and since you were there as a SendGrid employee, that reflects badly on the company. We'd like you to make a public apology about they way in which you dealt with it.
Adria: No
SG: We're not asking
Adria: But I'm not doing it
SG: Then we don't think you can continue working here.
Which is to say, she may have been terminated because of how she handled the situation within SendGrid, rather than what she did at the Con. Or maybe not. I don't think we've been given enough information to know & nor are we ever likely to unless Adria posts it.
Edit: I've just read the more detailed blog post (http://blog.sendgrid.com/a-difficult-situation/) and it seems your interpretation is right.