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Razer’s PR Is Going To Have A Field Day These Next Few Days
Sometimes you need to be a little merciless to get ahead, even at the expense of the people who work for you. This kind of sociopathic behaviour is unfortunately common in most industries, particularly in the gaming and peripheral-making side of things.
A recent Kotaku exposé stated that Razer and its CEO Min-Liang Tan got to where he is -a well-known entrepreneur and self-made billionaire in Singapore from selling black-and-acid-green peripherals- by being a “dictator” and by “berating and threatening his staff”. According to all 14 former employees speaking under anonymity, they were all hired to “basically serve him and make him money”.
“Razer looks like this cool place to work, but when you get in there, you realize you’re fighting for your life all the time. Either you’re working hard or you’re being told to bugger off.”
Here are the highlights from that long-form piece:
“His management style became ruling by fear. He was without question a dictator. This was one of his quotes: ‘This is not a democracy. This is a dictatorship.’ Then he’d qualify it, meaning, ‘I am in control.’
There was nothing too big or too small he didn’t want to be controlling. Everything went through him. Nothing was done without him.”
There’s a ton more you should read up here. With Razer’s CEO at the SEA Games 2019 Esports tournament and the company announcing the SEA Games Esports Day 1 streaming surpassing 1 million views, the timing seems impeccable on Kotaku’s part.
True, the company is in a good place now, but this is yet another unfortunate case of a company who worked off the backs and pains of its employees, as well as Singapore’s management culture slowly creeping over overseas businesses, for better or worse.
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