[FD3SA]

Wow, is all PR speak from SV companies so absolutely vacuous?

This guy sounded much more intelligent in his private memos. This crap sounds like a teenager's diary. So many "feels" and "hurts" and "angrys"...really seems like he's writing to a bunch of young teens.

I don't know how people work at companies like this. Between this and Marissa Mayer's children's book reading at an all employee meeting, I'd get fired twice for laughing out loud and calling the CEO of the company a blabbering idiot.

Anyone care to unravel the mystery of teen mystery PR speak?

[bsder]

Because he is.

"Social" apps are driven by a small number of trend driven, high sociability, sexually active females in the range of 16ish to 25ish.

If you get them, everybody else will flow to your "service" (other girls will follow the trendsetters--guys will follow the girls). It is no accident that SnapChat got popular from sending naked selfies.

[cylinder]

It's not PR speak, it's their generation. I'm only a few years older and can't even relate to it. My peers have even noticed this in our younger male siblings - they're only ~3 years younger, but they would constantly get into emotional fights with their good friends (lasting several days), cry all the time, and generally are a lot more sensitive and emotional. We don't understand it at all.

[cafard]

Pushing 60 here. What age are you talking about? Owing to neighborhood demographics I seem to know no males between the ages of about 24 and about 10.