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by tylermenezes 2457 days ago
I don't really understand what you're trying to suggest from my bio??...

>Their Instagram and Twitter accounts churn out constant brand building material. >They’re building their personal brand

I don't even have an Instagram? And literally I made two business-related tweets in the last month, one of which was a RT of someone commenting on how the org I run is valuable. Which brings me to...

>They both have pseudo-startups

I run a nonprofit that's had about 42,000 students attend mostly physical, in-person events in 53 cities, over the last 10ish years. We are profitable and have employees. Our programs have a NPS of 70-80 and we get grants from a bunch of big companies on the basis of our outcomes. This has been my full-time job and only livelihood for the last 5 years.

>I’d be interested in reading an honest “Where are they now” follow up series that checks in with these founders at the 5-year mark

We've been around for 10 years, and I've been the ED for 5. We have continued to grow and improve our key metrics although we're not a startup and I'm not going for meteoric growth.

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You may have been confused, yet you've elaborated GPs point for us very nicely. Two rather different impressions of people on the list in question.