“Becoming one of these iconic, impactful companies is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics. In fact, probably more challenging,” Shafi wrote in the memo, which was full of similarly outlandish analogies. “Like the Olympics, we know most people don’t want to be Olympians. In the same way, not everyone will want to walk the path we are walking. But for those that want to push their limits and find out what they are capable of, this culture is for you."
Translation: work long hours and don’t complain, because I stand to make a lot of money from your labour.
Ah yes, a cult.
What I’m capable of :(
To be entirely fair, every company writes some version of this corporate word salad in their “About” section. There’s nothing to be gleaned from it, be it positive or otherwise.
And every company is just telling its employees “Work ling hours and don’t complain, because we stand to make a lot of money from you labour”.
I have never heard of this before.
Only the bots knew of it.
I didn’t know of it therefore I’m not a bot! Take that Cloudflare! This is some Descartes level shit.
If you have realistic enough bots couldn’t you just sell thier data?
Let chatgpt help you with that.
Why not double down and also have bots click on the ads to drive up the number of impressions too? It’s a self sustaining economy.
Honestly, I bet you could sell this idea to some investors dumb enough.
I like the cut of your jib.
Capitalists love their top-down approach
That’s about twice as much as Reddit and Twitter! /hj
Imagine being one of those 1 million monthly active users just realizing that you were talking to a bot most of the time.
What the heck is a “unicorn social app”?
Unicorn is a weird finance term, a company that is worth a billion USD without being public https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(finance)
Shoulda renamed themselves to “less than real life”
Seems to me that this kind of stuff is the biggest contributor to Dead Internet Theory. Here’s hoping the fediverse means fewer incentives to make fake users.
TIL that unicorn app is a trophy/status to attain.
