On Friday,
On Saturday, one of those laid-off people sent us an email.
It's subject line: "What axed-patch sales people won't miss."
The email contained a link to a video.
Here's how this tipster described the video:
The video is about ten minutes long. Until it's inevitably taken down, you can watch it here. If you don't have ten minutes to kill, you can watch our quick edit of it to get a sense of what it's like watching Lipuma talk.
We don't think it's so bad. Lipuma is perhaps a bit long-winded, but he's just trying to teach his people how to do their job well. Managing is hard.
Probably the video shouldn't have been required viewing for all Patch sales people – just junior ones. Certainly Lipuma didn't have to be so nagging about it.
Our source sent us links to two other videos as well. If you can't get enough of Lipuma, here's one of him talking about Patch's last re-org, back in May. Here's another, where he talks about how the sales team finished February strong.