Gui Bibeau

2 reviews, 0% of them positive.0% positive · 2 reviews· Influence factor 18, above 3% of accounts

The record

From 2 activities · Apr 2026

Spent 2.9 years as Lead of Portfolio at MetaMask but used the product only 2-3 times; now at Solana where they use it daily. Critics point to minimal product engagement during tenure and describe a mindset that undermines product development.

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“the mindset that kills every product”Gui used to be the Lead DevRel and the Senior Staff Software Engineer / Product Lead (Portfolio) at MetaMask/ConsenSys. Now he works at Solana. Ethos Agent saved his recent tweet, in which Gui mentions he used MM maybe 2-3 times in 3 years. Yikes! I'm one of the people who likes to use products and write feedback on how to make them better. Over the years MetaMask has been such a pain in the ass, and dealing with the people at Consensys/MM was even worse than having to use their product. Gui is the perfect example of why that is. Oh man, how often I had to deal with MM people. Frequent bricking on Firefox. Sometimes permanently bricking with no way to reinstall because it would just brick by default after reinstalling the extension and even fully reinstalling the browser. The people at MM saying to just use Chrome instead. And then Chrome started bricking as well... And then MM had a memory leak when you used services like Sora (the extension ate up 64GB of RAM and crashed the browser/PC lol) See here: https://app.ethos.network/activity/review/683417/worst-wallet-on-the-market-and-it-somehow-keeps-getting-worse I had to deal with MM/Consensys people A LOT. But this isn't about those issues. It's about the mindset that kills products. When dealing with Metamask/Consensys people across the HUNDREDS of times troubleshooting and giving feedback - I had one constant thought. Those people are either not using their own product OR getting paid by the competition to deliberately make it worse. I just couldn't prove it for a very long time. That thought got reinforced after 13.0 version rollout when we got things like network selection suddenly being removed and then being hidden behind 3 panels. Or the reversed tx queue that didn't let you push stuck transactions through. Pretty much the only two things that used to work properly suddenly joined the large amount of broken and buggy features. Stuck transactions? Instead of pushing the stuck transaction through, Metamask suddenly switched to editing the LAST transaction instead of the one that's actually stuck. That's useless. Manually bypassing it? Well they removed the address you're using from quick selection, so you had to go back and copy your address to do a 0 value self tx with the stuck nonce. At that point I wrote this: https://x.com/miyaspokeofthis/status/2045934862591267327 "I don’t know how else to say it, but at this point it’s becoming awfully clear that you guys need to fire some people. The last few updates scream that the people behind them aren’t actually using your product… You can’t tell me otherwise. Because either they never actually used the product they are developing, or they are making it unusable on purpose. So which is it? Are your devs getting paid by competitors to make the product worse? Or are they just clueless?" Imagine my surprise when Gui publicly admitted to not using the product... and then going over to Solana. And Gui sadly isn't the only person that used the product 2-3 times. It's the exact reason why MM is constantly getting worse. notsofast described it pretty well: https://x.com/inversebrah/status/2045985947528093811 "the careerist linkedinification of crypto in one perfect post. as soon as serious companies started getting built in crypto, they hired serious job interviewees to work at them who had never used crypto and would (as they intended) go on to never use it" This is why a lot of products undergo "enshittification" after growth. And that's exactly what's happening at Metamask and across a lot of other crypto products. It's that exact mindset that slowly kills all the products you once liked to use. Instead of getting better, they get worse with every single update - to the point that you start to wonder if the people ever used their own product or are getting paid by the competition to make the product worse. Usually it's the former; ~90% rarely ever touch the product outside of test environment. Sometimes it's both, but you just can't prove it. In some cases, like with Gui, you will get the public admission that a) they didn't actually used the product and b) later on switched over to companies that you might actually consider as competition. I guess my gut feeling about Metamask was right. And while I couldn't prove it for a long time - Gui just did.

Username McUserface ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°) · 1460· 6mo ago · negative20

“This is sad: 2.9 years at MetaMask as the Lead of the Portfolio. I used the product 2-3 times. 11 months on @Solana...”> This is sad: > > 2.9 years at MetaMask as the Lead of the Portfolio. I used the product 2-3 times. > > 11 months on @Solana, i use it daily and for everything. X post saved by: [@0xKharon](https://app.ethos.network/profile/x/0xKharon) Authored at: 2026-04-19T01:41:31.000Z Author user id: 1283757859637997568 Link to tweet: [link](https://x.com/GuiBibeau/status/2045679151982551430)

Ethos Agent · 1365· 6mo ago · negative6

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