Here, I'll translate:
You will get minimum pay.
You must praise me.
I will fire you soon.
You must thank me for firing you.
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Worst than that, you build him a 7 figures company, he keeps all of it.
The people that fall for that must also love andrew tate
Want to make a million dollars a year?
- Work with me
- ??
- You won’t make a million dollars a year working with me.
This is MLM - the corporate edition.
That sounds like a classic pyramid scheme.
Inverted funnel
KOLANAKI
This sounds like an incubator but you didn't get to take the startup with you when it's ready for launch... Which defeats the point of an incubator
Apparently "do the work for the exposure" has reached the startup bro community.
"Help us build a new million dollar company from the ground up but keep zero equity" is certainly an interesting pitch.
No, they are going to do some bullshit like have you come to them with your business idea that you dont have enough money for. If they think your idea isn’t shit, I bet they “hire” you as a business partner with some shit contract where they get a percentage of your business when it’s successful.
They probably will even ask you to put up a certain amount of money to show your commitment (which depending on the amount will be used to pay yourself basically). I also bet there is some launch program, like 6 weeks or 12 weeks or something. Then you leave the “nest” aka we stop paying for you and cut you off from the services we already used for our core business (of stealing business ideas or entering predatory partnerships) and now you have to fly on your own.
I have 8 figures and for X$ I'll teach you how to build a 7 figure business where you... teach people how to earn 6 figures... teaching...
Yeah.
This reminds of some type of shape... One with four corners and ends in a point 🤔
Tetrahedron? Pyramid is five point prism with a square base
Could be a triangular based pyramid.
One should always be wary of triangular pyramid schemes. They are inherently unstable.
Whaaaat? Triangles are the best angles.
No way, hexagons are the bestagons.
I think you need one more. Hexagons also just are inherently blase. They're a lamer circle.
Look I'm a little tired ok
Is this the equivalent of working for exposure?
Isn't 'bootstrap' a sorta dogwhistle in this scenario?
Or foreshadowing?
I always figured "bootstrap" means "I can't even get VCs who will throw money at anything to throw money at me."
Lol so you are denigrating companies that don't take VC funding? I imagine you'd have criticisms for companies which are VC-funded.
My company is bootstrapped which means we are forced to grow in a sustainable way, we listen to our customers and optimize the product for their experience, and we don't have to listen to any investors.
I'm very curious why "bootstrap" would be any sort of dogwhistle.
This meme made me look up the term "bootstrapped."
Which then made me wonder what a "bootstrap" is even supposed to look like.
Which led to a frustrating failure of an image search where I learned that even DuckDuckGo stopped accepting a minus sign to exclude search terms. Trying to look up any combination of "bootstrap -code -coding -web" etc. failed to bring up anything except the purple Bootstrap logo. My search was eventually resolved by separating the word into "boot" and "strap," but that's bullshit because according to multiple dictionary sites, "bootstrap" (in reference to a strap attached to a boot) is, indeed, one word. I even tried Google (lord help me), just to confirm this isn't some niche DDG difference.
It seems that literal bootstraps are so out of fashion, that simply finding pictures of them is a challenge. Yet people keep using the phrase "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" as if it's an intuitive symbol everyone understands. I don't know about you, but I've never used bootstraps, and the concept sounds as old-timey as hitching a wagon to a horse.
Not sure what Century you're hailing from, but all my boots have bootstraps, so do my climbing shoes.
So, a lot of times archaic terms get preserved in an idiom. A good example of this is "moot point" or "bated breath". Most people understand what those phrases mean, but they probably don't know what a "moot" is or what "bated" means. This is not that, though.
A bootstrap is the strap at the back of a boot that you use to help pull the boot onto your foot. Every pair of boots I've ever owned has had them.
I feel like LinkedIn also really missed an opportunity on today's pinpoint puzzle.