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by keepamovin 1047 days ago
What I like most about this development is that, suddenly, folks with "CEO " or "Founder " in their Twitter bio look uncool, while folks with "<hardscience>" in their twitter bio are uber cool.

Note to pedants: yes yes, the Venn diagram has an intersection.

2 comments

People with <hardscience> in their bio have always been cooler
Now they're room temperature at ambient pressure.
My measly single upvote is insufficient to express how hard I laughed at this. Bravo!
That is very clever!
Appreciate you both. :)
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Folks with CEO or "Founder" in their bio have always looked uncool imo.
I meet on average a hundred of those every year and while some of them are seriously uncool the majority is actually very impressive.
They can be impressive and there's nothing wrong with being a founder or a CEO (I'm one, too!).

Putting it into one's bio is what makes it... cringe, as the kids say.

It's something pretty standard for funded start-ups because the rest of the ecosystem that they operate in expects it. If it is two guys in an attic it's cringe (see my 'you are not the CEO article') but if you have picked up some funding and employ 20 people I totally get why you would do that.