PC Master Race

Billet Labs asked for it to be returned. LMG agreed the their request and told Billet Labs "Yes, we will return it to you." Then LMG auctioned it off. LMG committed theft. There very well may be a valid legal case for Billet Labs to sue for punitive damages if LMG does not give them a sizeable amount of money.

Intent like "I'm going to sell this thing"?

Or intent like "I've sold the thing and now will pocket the money"?

It absolutely does not. If a package gets delivered to your house by mistake and you sell whatever it is, you are 100% liable for stealing someones mail. Doesn't matter if you didn't think the people would ever come for it and you didn't mean to steal anything.

Whether intentional or not, they stole trade secrets. There might not be any legal repercussions of there wasn't intent, but that's incredibly unethical. Especially given Linus is a public investor in a tech startup, he used his platform to trash another startup and then give away their intellectual property.

Stepping down as CEO is probably the right call, but this move to "CVO" seems a little too lateral. I think Linus needs to pull back out of the spotlight, for the health of his company. But I really think he thinks his personality is the brand.

If ownership hasn't changed, and he's still essentially the CEO's boss since he selects them, it's rearranging deck chairs. He hired someone to do administrative tasks.

I like what Linus states

I've only watched LMG content for a few months, but this out-of-context snippet sums up my feelings on the company.

Sebastian says that it's a consumer-first, employee-second, profit-third company. But his actions don't always support that.

Sebastian says that he doesn't believe anyone should ever be a "fan" of anything because it's irrational. But then he turns around and dismisses anyone who doesn't show his brand absolute loyalty.

Sebastian says a lot of shit which sounds absolutely amazing if you can assume it's true. And the problem is that you can't assume that the company line is true coming from any company. You can just watch their business practices and make the best judgment on if the company seems honest. And Linus Sebastian, who effectively is the company as the owner and face of it, has increasingly come off as dishonest. It makes it damn near impossible to trust any of the good things he says that he does.

This is probably the most coherent take I've read. He's having trouble taking it from a yt channel to an actual company, and it's kicking his arse.

I liked their budget build guides, it provided me with a baseline list of components depending on my available budget for the build. I’ve also based some of my decision regarding setting up my house networking from their videos.

LTT made a 250 USD backpack. When people asked about the warranty, Linus basically said “trust me bro” and mocked people who voiced their concerns of buying a brand new quite expensive backpack without any warranty.