“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.
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”.
"Becoming one of these iconic, impactful companies is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics. In fact, probably more challenging,”
This line is actually so ridiculous that it feels like a parody.
What I’m capable of :(
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?
Honestly, I bet you could sell this idea to some investors dumb enough.
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.
Let chatgpt help you with that.
Sell chatgpt generated data to chatgpt
It prints money!
This is starting to sound like some kind of monorail scheme.
maybe this is why bots have been overrunning every social media network with basically no direct opposition recently
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Capitalists love their top-down approach
I believe they call it a trickle down
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Huh, TIL.
Unicorn is a weird finance term, a company that is worth a billion USD without being public https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(finance)
Imagine being one of those 1 million monthly active users just realizing that you were talking to a bot most of the time.
That’s about twice as much as Reddit and Twitter! /hj
Shoulda renamed themselves to “less than real life”
Last year, IRL laid off 25% of its team, or around 25 employees. During the year prior, IRL had more than tripled its head count, so these cuts came as a surprise. In a note to employees, obtained by TechCrunch, former CEO and founder Abraham Shafi encouraged employees to “adapt” and “be disciplined,” citing that WhatsApp grew to 450 million users with a team of just 55.
“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.”
Wow, that CEO sounds like an asshole.
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.
Man that name did not do them any favors.
