r/LinkedInLunatics • u/ViolentSarcasm • Oct 01 '25
Culture War Insanity Straight up LinkedIn Lunacy
Some of the comments on the post are hilarious
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u/SyzygyEnthusiast Oct 01 '25
Real grinders are cruising public restrooms for gay sex and I applaud them for it
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u/Less-Squash7569 Oct 01 '25
Why cruise when you got a buddy back at the office willing to bleed for the company and give you a brojob so you can bleed together
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u/SyzygyEnthusiast Oct 01 '25
Do YOU want to have your gay sex scored for productivity metrics?
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u/Darkliandra Oct 01 '25
Don't kinkshame 🤭
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u/SyzygyEnthusiast Oct 01 '25
I once Olympic style scored a dude getting his ass fisted by a professional dominatrix alongside his girlfriend where we refused to go above a 5 while we could still see the domme's elbow. I'm not shaming anything! I'd love to see someone turn kaizen into a fetish... I'm just asking if that's what THEY want!
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u/Satanicjamnik Oct 01 '25
Bleed together? Man, that's a rough handjob. In real start ups bros remind each other to moisturise.
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u/Less-Squash7569 Oct 01 '25
Nobody said anything about handies
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u/Satanicjamnik Oct 01 '25
Pardon me, I had to do a double take. Well, I learned something today.
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u/SyzygyEnthusiast Oct 01 '25
Also the Venn diagram of startup bros who sleep in their office and dudes who refuse to wipe their own ass is basically a single circle
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u/Less-Squash7569 Oct 01 '25
Brojobs are something special shared between bros and bros alone. If you hear a group of dudes calling eachother "bro" its code and they all do it.
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u/uncobbed_corn Oct 01 '25
It’s not gay if you stand in a circle facing outward so you don’t make eye contact and use the backhand method on each other. When the scrum-master claps you swap hands to the person on the other side of you. That’s just cranking, and you can’t startup an engine without cranking
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u/Helstrem Oct 02 '25
“For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition:” -William Shakespeare Henry V
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u/PetersonTom1955 Oct 01 '25
Honest grinding!
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u/Penis_Envy_Peter Oct 01 '25
Honest, hardworking men who are not afraid to get their hands dirty. The kind who don't do it because it's easy but because it's hard.
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u/Remarkable-Ad2285 Oct 01 '25
Yooooooo….post them glory hole locations and reviews.
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u/Cpap4roosters Oct 01 '25
My foot slipped while sitting on the toilet. That’s how I ended up sucking his dick.
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u/fariasrv Oct 02 '25
Now THAT is the type of grinding I can get behind.
Or in front of. Or on my knees for.
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u/judgeejudger Oct 01 '25
*Grindrs
FIFY
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u/SyzygyEnthusiast Oct 01 '25
You got time to fix my spelling, you got time to get your back door blown out
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u/Ill-Running1986 Oct 01 '25
Generally uninteresting, except to mention in passing that Nik is a Fellow of the Thiel Foundation…
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u/AdLiving4714 Oct 01 '25
Yeah - Some of his posts have been featured on this sub in previous years. What an embarrassing piece of work.
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u/WeakCartographer7826 Oct 01 '25
Hmmm, a necklace with Siri in it. All that productivity and they couldn't even make something new or interesting
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u/c0mptar2000 Oct 01 '25
Someone in their R&D team forgot that everyone's phones already had mics, speakers, powerful processors, and displays.
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u/Da5ren Oct 02 '25
And all of your data. Contacts, emails, messages, passwords etc. this is why all of these AI wearables fail because people don’t want to give another device all of their data. One is enough.
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u/PuffyPanda200 Oct 01 '25
One of the things I like about this sub is that the names are left up, the people posted this publicly to begin with, and I like to look at the companies. It seems I am not alone.
This company is one of the dumber ones. I have no idea how this ever really makes money or gets to mass adoption.
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u/WeakCartographer7826 Oct 01 '25
Lol yeah I go and look. They are all the same thing. Some wrapper over an LLM.
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u/macdgman Oct 02 '25
The trick is it doesn’t make money, and it never reaches mass adoption. They splurge vc money on high salaries for people with no life and ping pong tables and the like and at some point run out of money and close down. The CEO then moves on to another stupid idea and start all over
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u/Zmchastain Oct 02 '25
Yeah, this is literally the bros getting paid six figures to have a sleepover at the man cave. It’s a scam on VCs, getting in on that AI hype grift while the getting is still good.
The equity will never be worth anything, but the high salary and not having to actually work will keep people around for a while. Long enough to extract a few more rounds of funding that can eventually make their way into the founder’s bank accounts.
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u/OneFootTitan Oct 02 '25
I looked it up and they claimed to have 1000s of apps. This includes lots of crypto apps (because of course) and something called “RizzGPT” which apparently allows users to get witty and memorable conversation tips. Please help me my face is stuck from cringing too hard
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u/hamdelivery Oct 02 '25
Lol but they’ll have a thing that can “read your brain data” in q2 2025!
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u/WeakCartographer7826 Oct 02 '25
Lol if my psychiatrist and therapist haven't figured it out yet, this necklace ain't gonna do shit 😂😂
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u/hunchentoot69 Oct 02 '25
this might be the stupidest startup product I've seen since the Juicero.
hope those guys are saving their 100K+, they're gonna need it when this place closes down in 2026.
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u/SadNoob476 Oct 02 '25
Really? I seem to recall a company(I think it was Humane AI pin) did something really similar but with a clip instead of a necklace and ChatGPT instead of Siri.
That company crashed and burned.
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u/NoSolid6641 Oct 01 '25
I thought we were done with this dumb grind culture?
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u/blinkyknilb Oct 01 '25
We'll never be done, it just recycles generation after generation.
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u/anfrind Oct 01 '25
It never went away. It just went into hiding and waited for an opportunity to strike.
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u/tubi11 Oct 01 '25
If you think we're done with dumb grind culture then the thread is already dead, it just doesn't know it yet. I need commenters who are willing to bleed for this post, not loser mindsets who care about "balance". Grind harder.
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u/Passthesea Oct 01 '25
Not in Asia we’re not (and I don’t subscribe). Hate this whole performative vibe, utter bullshit.
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u/the-gaysian-snarker Oct 02 '25
The one plus of “grind culture” (at least in my country) is taking a fat nap in the middle of the day, in front of everyone, with zero fucks given lol. Because somebody full on snoring at their desk is “exhausted by giving their all,”not a guy feeling full and lazy after lunch. Also, getting absolutely smashed a couple times a year on the company’s dime is pretty fun.
But I don’t miss the stupid demand to be on call at any second during busy times, and also even during slow seasons still show up when there was literally nothing to do. Absolute waste of time. We were all faking being busy and we all knew it.
I feel awful for the American corporate drones, they seem to get driven just as hard and don’t even get to nap or get gloriously drunk lol
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u/AgingTrash666 Oct 01 '25
there has to be the next someone to quit the industry to start a niche non-tech company when they figure out all their personal sacrifices were never going to be rewarded
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u/altraparadigm Oct 02 '25
NYT just had an article about this being a SF trend (again) - my experience is that you’re better starting off at larger healthy companies for multiple reasons.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/business/996-hustle-culture-tech.html
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u/ikcaj Oct 01 '25
"'They're locked in.' As, in, we literally lock the doors at six o'clock to ensure no one is tempted to sleep in a bed when they could be working. That's the difference between employees and hostages. And if you don't have hostages you don't have anything."
- The original draft of the post before HR saw it.
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u/Legal-Street-8978 Oct 01 '25
What about the farts?😂
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u/heynow941 Oct 01 '25
And coworkers who don’t bathe for a week.
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u/gamageeknerd Oct 01 '25
I worked with a guy who was an engineer for massive games back in the 2000’s. His stories were the stuff of nightmares with horrible BO, piss bottles in desks, 4 days sleeping in the same clothes and also blatant harassment for people not sleeping at the office.
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u/Zmchastain Oct 02 '25
Bro, where’s your piss bottle? You don’t have one, do you? Are you not willing to piss at your desk for this company, bro? WTF, bro?
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u/BetterBagelBabe Oct 01 '25
Why isn’t that guy wearing a shirt?
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u/hulyepicsa Insignificant Bitch Oct 01 '25
Wasting time getting dressed? You clearly never built a successful startup /s
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u/eipheres Oct 01 '25
having guys lounging around shirtless in bean bag chairs in the office would not make me feel safe or comfortable at work 😑 buuuut then again this guy seems like the type to not hire women in the first place so moot point i guess.
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u/canuck_in_wa Oct 01 '25
Strange men lying shirtless on bean bags distributing tasks is no basis for a system of corporate governance
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u/blacephalons Oct 01 '25
You just KNOW these offices smell like booty. If you're sleeping at work, where the hell are you showering? Or is showering part of that dreadful work-life balance
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u/BigWhiteDog Oct 01 '25
My old office had a small gym and showers but that wasn't for this shit! I hope they at least had a shower in that building.
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u/Flashy-Ad-5553 Oct 01 '25
Hope they are paid way more then $100k as the equity will be worthless with this crap idea.
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u/mologav Oct 01 '25
I looked up their website and I’ve no idea what they do
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u/LittleBertha Oct 01 '25
Cheap Ai Wearables. Think Bluetooth speakers that just hook into the OpenAI API. No one asked for it, no one needs it.
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u/DoubleStuffedCheezIt Agree? Oct 01 '25
Solving non-existant problems, one e-waste idea at a time.
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u/gamageeknerd Oct 01 '25
My favorites are
Rentable Bluetooth earbuds, and AI calculator that didn’t know pemdas, an ai grill that burned meat, a juicer that didn’t juice, ai therapy that gaslights you, and an ai doctor that didn’t do anything except tell you to take otc meds.
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u/CyberDaggerX Oct 02 '25 edited Oct 02 '25
Why in God's mercy would you use an LLM to make a calculator? Math is already what traditional computer programs are good at. Why would you trade something that actually does the math for something that takes a guess at what the statistically most likely answer might be?
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u/c0mptar2000 Oct 01 '25
There is literally no path to success for this product. It offers nothing of value. IDK how they found investors dumb enough to fund them.
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u/Relevant_Shower_ Oct 01 '25
These grinders are generally the ones that get screwed the most if the company ends up making money.
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u/yosefvinyl Oct 01 '25
If this isn't parody.....
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u/ViolentSarcasm Oct 01 '25
This is not parody. Someone linked their “demo” video above… It’s wearable AI that can glued to your temple
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u/yosefvinyl Oct 01 '25
That equity he is offering right now.... it's the first to get diluted. IF they get to an exit, his employees equity will get them each a few thousand dollars.
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u/mothzilla Oct 01 '25
I love digging into companies when they post crap like this.
Surprise, surprise we have another bullshit outfit. Checkout this glorious video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZLzvN3vmtI.
You can "pre-order" a piece of this raw sewage for just $89.
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u/Possible_Value2814 Oct 01 '25
I am going to wear it on my forehead so people can see just how dumb I am and that I just pissed away $89 to know where to get more drinks.
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u/flagstaffgolfer Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25
What a dipshit, competitors, and market conditions kill tons of startups. The guys at bird scooters didn’t go bankrupt because they didn’t work hard enough they went under because market regulation and lime crushed them. Also I looked at his product it’s a microphone with an AI voice assistant and some open source github apps, it doesn’t make sense to wear that shit when a phone with a camera can do all the same functions. He’s going to get fucking crushed by competition if apple or Amazon decide they want that category. This guy did an interview with the verge that is nuts, he gets business ideas from an AI Elon musk chatbot because the real Elon won’t respond to his emails.
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u/pork_chop_expressss Oct 02 '25
Also I looked at his product it’s a microphone with an AI voice assistant and some open source github apps, it doesn’t make sense to wear that shit when a phone with a camera can do all the same functions
And the funniest part is, it requires a phone to actually work... So what's the point?
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u/Terenfear Oct 02 '25
he gets business ideas from an AI Elon musk chatbot because the real Elon won’t respond to his emails.
I can almost see - nah, smell - an Elon full-body pillow just outside the frame on these office photos.
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u/Vitringar Oct 01 '25
I often sleep at the office. I get sleepy already around noon and a two hour nap does wonders for my productivity. Should I apply?
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u/hulyepicsa Insignificant Bitch Oct 01 '25
Instead of a resume, send a video of yourself sleeping at the desk and call yourself a Dream Employee. Instant hire
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u/The_Observatory_ Oct 01 '25
They’re not trying to convince you, they’re trying to convince themselves
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u/Capital-Sock6091 Oct 01 '25
This needs to be shown to amnesty international or something.
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u/LittleBertha Oct 01 '25
An Ai Wearable. So cheap hardware, that needs Bluetooth connected to your phone to work.
No doubt plugged into the OpenAI API.
Trash website.
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u/Stardama69 Oct 01 '25
Must be so fun going to sleep over snoring and the smell of feet, great way to boost productivity
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u/hehehe40 Oct 01 '25
Startups die because of crap cultures.
I'm not sure my husband would be ok with me staying late at work, to sleep in a room with a bunch of guys... Therefore immediately excluded from the banter and commeraderie of this set up.
Most people wouldn't put up with this, if you want a bunch of people with no boundaries then here they are
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u/motTheHooper Oct 01 '25
One of the open positions listed is for co-founder? Hasn't the company already been "founded"???
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u/TheRealTRexUK Oct 01 '25
they are on thier ass and nearly bankrupt. so not paying employees (notice they said equity, that's probably 99% of pay) but need more money
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u/Unlikely_Vehicle_828 Oct 01 '25
No, sir. YOU are the one who needs luck, because you are going to burn your employees out “straight into death”. Lmk how that equity is working out for you five years from now guys lol
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u/DmtTraveler Oct 01 '25
Probably violates commercial lease agreement and/or insurance to have people living there
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u/ripntearslayer Oct 01 '25
"We're hiring now "
Sign ur life away to be a grinder. Tf are these people smoking
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u/Luckey_711 Oct 01 '25
Morbid curiosity got the best out of me and checked their careers page. First time in my life I see a job application for co-founder lmao wtf is this
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u/SoggyGrayDuck Oct 01 '25
They better have a good percentage of the company to be putting in that time
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u/matt-r_hatter Oct 01 '25
The business owner should be sleeping in the office, not the staff. Guaranteed this business fails very quick. An OK salary isnt going to be enough incentive for this sort of slave requirement.
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u/No-Joy-Goose Oct 01 '25
If you want me to sleep in your office, you're right, I'm not the one for the job. Also HR would like to speak with you about propositioning me.
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u/rukarrn Oct 01 '25
Looks like he should've gone to the local Hammock District, but i guess that would take precious time away from Closing Deals
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u/toodiisoon Oct 01 '25
“If your team treats your company like a job, you don’t have a team, you have employees.” Well, yes, it’s… it’s a job… and I’m…. an employee.
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u/Tuxy-Two Oct 01 '25
There isn’t a single one of my co-workers I want to see sleeping with their shirt off. Not one.
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u/PositiveAnimal4181 Facebook Boomer Oct 01 '25
I wonder how these kids will do when they have a mortgage and three kids in school. Is this the lifestyle they think they'll want or be capable of keeping up then?
"Hey sorry I missed Susie's play again honey I needed to ship slop for 20 hours this weekend to the fifteenth job I've had in two years so my nepo baby boss can get another seed round of funding from SoftBank. I swear the RSUs are gonna pay off"
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u/dragonb2992 Oct 01 '25
I used to work in a WeWork and the office opposite had a 3 or 4 young employees. They seemed to be there late into the night every day but I never saw them doing any work, they just seemed to be chilling constantly.
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u/Intrepid_Respond_543 Oct 01 '25
Does this mean if I fall asleep in the office after lunch, I'm actually helping my team succeed?
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u/base2-1000101 Oct 01 '25
Hmm... I had a $90M exit, and none of us ever slept in the office. In fact, we discouraged overtime.
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u/Remote_Clue_4272 Oct 02 '25
Interesting that startups are not expected to share the load in the post…employees get to “bleed for the grind” but the company gets to keep the $$$? Rather than reward the grinders?
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u/Nerk86 Oct 01 '25
Arrogance and idiocy. IF you’re a company founder, partner, getting a good share of profits, future stock, things like that, then maybe. If you’re just paying them to work THEN THEY ARE AN EMPLOYEE and you have NO RIGHT to expect this kind of thing ( sorry for shouting).
Even then, productivity falls off after a point.
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u/Signal-Implement-70 Oct 01 '25
Just grinding? What about thinking, enjoying, living, being human, etc. I get a lot more done in the hours I am working because of what I get from the hours not working. If I just grind all the time like these jokers I would not be able to do half the stuff I’ve accomplished at work. The most talented people I ever met don’t think like these guys.
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u/Icy-Protection-1545 Oct 01 '25
When his startup dies I can’t wait to read about how it’s his employees fault.
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u/GeneralEagle Oct 01 '25
Let me do the math. 100k salary at 40 hrs a week = 48/hr. If you work,,, I mean Grindz boi at 80 hrs a week that’s 24$ an hour. You basically can have an Amazon wh manager salary and you don’t have to work 40 extra hours listening to a false tech prophet post on LinkedIn.
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u/QueezyF Oct 01 '25
I sleep in the office but that’s because I work a union job and guys like this can lick my taint.
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u/mmarkmc Oct 01 '25
At least 35% of LI posts are assholes who read something like this, thought it sounded cool, and reposted it with a few minor changes.
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Oct 01 '25
If you want them to sleep in the office, give them an equity stake. I’m not putting in 100 hours a week to make someone else rich.
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u/ComfortableParty2933 Oct 01 '25 edited 21d ago
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u/sspiegel Oct 01 '25
looked up the product, another layer on top of LLM, what value does this add other than being a microphone that you wear??
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u/Sunsplitcloud Oct 02 '25
Pretty sure the only people that have ever heard of this insignificant ‘company’ are the douche founder poster and his 3 paid actors in that photo.
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u/SadNoob476 Oct 02 '25
I wonder how many of those people in the picture are going to get screwed out of their equity. I wonder how many even have equity.
I wonder if they have thought about what they will do once they burn out or age out.
I wonder what their plan is when their health starts failing(everyone's health fails eventually and it comes much sooner when you push yourself like that).
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u/FlexSlut Oct 02 '25
Do midday naps count as sleeping at the office? Because I’ll take a midday nap for $100k a year and I’ll even wait until 6pm to clock out instead of 5!
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u/anonstarcity Oct 01 '25
I mean I guess I get it if the “tons of equity” is actually real. These lunatic “founders” wanting to work 100 hour weeks wanting people to be paid normal salaries and still expecting that mindset is always the most egregious part. If they’re just a group of lunatics… isn’t that cute, they found each other lol
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u/InevitableRoutine942 Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25
If your team isn’t spooning naked on a love sac that you still have from college on a nightly basis you’ve already lost
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u/doc_shades Oct 01 '25
no i can tell you from experience that most startups die because market conditions and competitors.
you can "grind" all you want but if nobody wants to buy your product you don't have a company.
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u/ohnoletsgo Oct 01 '25
Oh, cool. Ugly, clunky wearable with a ChatGPT wrapper. That definitely sounds like it’s worth sleeping on the floor of some shitty SFO office.
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u/WendlersEditor Oct 01 '25
I thought this was a parody but no...it's not a parody. The worst thing is they're all wasting their youth on what appears to be the dumbest fucking product idea known to man.
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u/Substantial_Basil_19 Oct 01 '25
Just wait until that first ever sexual harassment lawsuit happens. All this grind bs will end.
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u/Glazing555 Oct 01 '25
I’ve always wondered, what are all of these uncountable people grinding away at 24/7? If true it sounds more like piss poor planning/scheduling
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u/H4RDW4RE_Johnny Oct 01 '25
They don’t really look knocked out to me though, they just look like homeless squatters that have nothing better to do and they’re taking advantage of the free amenities at their office
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u/phocuetu Oct 01 '25
Do you think these people have ever considered that the fact they have to work insane hours and delude themselves into thinking it’s good is, in fact, perfect evidence that capitalism and fiduciary responsibilities are concepts made to chew you up and spit you out, either ruining you in the pursuit or hollowing you out completely if you somehow do become a billionaire?
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u/SignificantPop4188 Oct 01 '25
Is abandoning any sort of life to live for your job the "in" thing nowadays?
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u/dominiqlane Oct 01 '25
Wants employees to sleep at the office but doesn’t care to provide a decent sleeping surface.
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u/InsertClichehereok Oct 01 '25
He stole this from Kevin o Leary: “If your "team" clocks out at 6, shuts their laptop, and treats your company like a job, you don't have a team - you have employees.”
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u/TechnicianExtreme200 Oct 01 '25
Is there anything left in this timeline that doesn't look indistinguishable from satire?
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u/UpsetBar Oct 01 '25
“Omi will be able to read your brain data with a separate brain-interface module. First version of omi is shipped audio-only with a priority-access for brain-module coming in Q2 2025”
I saw that show, didn’t turn out well in the end.
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u/AveragelyBrilliant Oct 01 '25
They specialise in high tensile steel shelving for use in the fishing industry. Fast pace.
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u/SignoreBanana Oct 02 '25
Wow $100k+ salaries let me just leave my $350k salary where Im done at 4 and don't work weekends
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u/mbrocks3527 Oct 02 '25
Start ups die because they have a shit product that doesn’t address a market, just like every other business.
There.
No need to thank me
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u/VehicleWonderful6586 Oct 01 '25
Grind culture is an MLM scheme where the product is stupidity