Patrick Shyu

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Patrick Shyu, also known as TechLead, is a former Google and Facebook employee who is known for his YouTube channel and his social media posts about the software industry.

Shyu worked at Google's San Bruno, California office for almost four years. He then joined Facebook in May 2018. Shyu was fired by Facebook on August 26, 2019, for reasons he attributes to his own YouTube channel. He posted many videos in the immediate aftermath of his firing. Shyu estimated in 2019 that he was making $500,000 from his YouTube channel, more than either of his prior employers paid him per year. Shyu has been particularly negative about Facebook's working culture, comparing it to a popularity contest, and disliking the attention that employees give to Workplace, the company's internal social network.

In 2021, Shyu, who often introduces himself as a millionaire in his YouTube videos, launched a cryptocurrency called Million Token. Observers compared Million Token to a pump and dump scheme as it sold initially for $1.00 USD, then jumped to $36.87 three days later, then two days later had fallen by 51%. Traders observed that Shyu was removing liquidity from Million Coin's market without selling any tokens, creating artificial scarcity.

In May 2022, many Twitter users criticized Shyu for a series of tweets he posted about women in tech. In a tweet that he later deleted, Shyu said that when he worked at Google, he "rejected all women on-the-spot and trashed their resumes in front of them." Following up on these tweets, Shyu wrote, "Women shouldn't code … perhaps be influencers/creators instead. It's their natural strength." [ellipsis in original] His posts attracted opposition from women and men on Twitter.

External links

• {YouTube|TechLead}
• Patrick Shyu on Twitter