{"id":5556,"date":"2020-06-07T14:54:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T18:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/?p=5556"},"modified":"2020-08-07T06:58:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T10:58:13","slug":"justin-sun-buys-your-company-what-do-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/magazine\/2020\/06\/07\/justin-sun-buys-your-company-what-do-you-do","title":{"rendered":"Justin Sun Buys Your Company… What Do You Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"
In case you were wondering how much we pull our punches in Cointelegraph Magazine, consider this assessment of Justin Sun, from the article directly below:<\/p>\n
\n\n“Derided by some as a lightweight showman, the P.T. Barnum of crypto, others see him as a marketing genius whose penchant for the limelight has created an army of loyal followers. He embodies the CEO-as-spokesman, actively adopting the post-Trumpian, post-Muskian philosophy of attention at any cost.<\/em><\/p>\n
It\u2019s rumored that Sun cares little about the value of Tron\u2019s TRX token, or indeed the value of any of his multiple investments, and that his personal key performance indicators revolve around Twitter engagement.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nWarren Buffett… Greta Thunberg… Tesla giveaways… wherever there’s news and controversy, there he is, interjecting himself into the conversation. What’s the deal with Justin Sun, and why does he provoke such a visceral reaction that people quit the company they love, rather than work for him?<\/p>\n
We added a poll on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0to get your thoughts. Feel free to follow Cointelegraph Magazine’s feed\u00a0and vote!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\nJustin Sun bought your company… now what?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Andrew Levine, ex-Head of Communications at Steemit, resigned soon after it became clear\u00a0that Tron was behind the acquisition. Before long, there wasn’t a single engineer from the pre-Sun era still working at Steemit. Why?<\/p>\n