Below are the main quotes mentioning
@IOHK_Charles in the Ethereum Rescue & Restructure Plan transcript between
@StevenNerayoff &
@VitalikButerin
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Steven Nerayoff:
“By the way, I’m also going to say I believe the restructuring was a huge mistake. I know Charles has his downside. I am very aware of Charles’ strengths and weaknesses. And I’m aware that he has both. But he was the closest thing you had to both a strategic person… And you don’t have an asshole.”
“you guys, in a way, were lucky with Charles and Amir. I think Amir is interested in his Ether going up and I don’t know that it’s in his personality to bad mouth and Charles obviously it’s not in his personality to have a bad mouth because he has nothing to lose by bad mouthing at this point. It actually says a lot about his character because he gave all of his Ether to Jeremy and he hasn’t said anything negative about the company and from my understanding, there were no NDAs in the entire company.”
“If every single goddamn person left but you and Charles, okay, it actually would've been a better thing in my opinion. You would've been able to build this thing right back up.”
“So my thing on Charles is you need a Charles eventually. You need an interim guy. Could you bring back Charles? I think you could. That’s my gut telling you.”
“ For everybody who thinks that Charles is just completely arrogant and completely self-absorbed, then there is aspects of that to him. I'm not denying that. And I also consider him a friend too. But I've said this to his face. It’s that, he came to me and said “Listen Steve, I recognize I have deficits as being a CEO.” And he said “Can you help groom me?” ”
“You wouldn't have had any problem getting your entire development team and everything if Charles had stayed. He knows everybody in this space, and he’s still somehow -- Now,there are people that don’t like him. I've talked to people that don’t like him. But most people kind of do like him. They respect him. They respect his intellect and his capabilities. Even the ones that don’t like him respect him -- his capabilities, anyway. And so, that says something.”
“If it was me, I'd call him up and I’d say, “Charles, I'm sorry for what happened. I feel bad about it. Here's why it happened.” I'd apologize to him, because you -- And you're saying you feel bad about it.”
“Charles is a very practical guy.”
Vitalik Buterin:
“As far as Charles, I mean, he personally sees the weaknesses in Charles and he sees the strengths and he might be willing to have Charles back onboard in some fashion, not necessarily at the top of everything, but at least as some kind of advisor.”
Steven Nerayoff:
“The Charles thing, I do think he really is an answer. He’s not the only answer out there but I don’t know -- at this point in time, it’s like you need somebody that’s intimately familiar with what you guys are doing and so, it’s not like really a lot of time to bring somebody up to speed, especially with the -- it’s different if you had 15 or 20 million dollars or so, you don’t and you had a real low burn rate, but you need somebody who’s going to be able to come in and just run right off the bat. I don’t know who else could fit that bill at this point.
Listen, I have a lot of respect for his work, but this is just between me and you, again, like I said, everybody is expendable. I’m expendable, Charles is expendable, you’re expendable, he’s expendable, everybody is expendable. What’s not expendable is the company and that’s the issue. I don’t know, can you see that working? How do you see that working?”