I swear to god, every time I turn around there is another one of these tech wizards who is a total fucking fraud.
- Sam Altman
- Elizabeth Holmes
- That WeWork Fuckhead
- SBF
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2026
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Every single CEO is a quack.
And by CEO I don't mean every single boss - I specifically mean the head of any company with a proper C-suite.
Why?
Because 99.999999% of the time, they're just shitty middle-manager yesmen who failed upwards, thanks only to their agreeability.
The CEO isn't some wizard who knows the biz inside and out. They're literally just a figurehead, someone to take the fall, sign the executive decisions, and market the company. Nothing else. Their purpose is to maximise shareholder value, even at the cost of ruining the company, and one of the methods of doing so is marketing.
so you get these absolute morons, often malicious morons, like the listed, or Musk, who know nothing about the innate workings of the company, but pretend to do so in public purely for the extra profit it brings.
Then people act shocked when the N+1th CEO turns out to be a complete dipshit who knows nothing but yapping.
Wait until you find out that The Rock and Dwayne Johnson are actually two different people.
Sam Altman is free and Sam Bankman is Fried
For a couple of days it was Sam Altman-Fired.
No they aren't. Not fundamentally.
I'm still not convinced, has anyone ever seen them in the same room together?
Both shitty
I heard this in a Scandinavian accent and saw that beardo with that shit eating grin.
It's a pretty subtle difference, but you can tell because of the different names and faces and occupations.
They're both named Sam, they both have pale faces, they're both some kind of technology entrepreneur.
technology entrepreneur
The word you’re looking for here is “charlatan”.
tomato, tomato
And yet both have irredeemably fucked up the world.
Is that even true? If it isn't, they could be the same guy playing a different character after the FTX collapse.
Yes, I never really thought much about it, it just seemed so obvious to me that there was just one Sam from Stanford who talked a lot about revolutionizing technology while scamming people out of their money.
Oh good. I wasn't the only one.
To think he was just a fraud. Wow, only two years of schooling. He just positioned himself in the right way at the right time to get there. SMH, "master manipulator" lol .
Both Kojimaesque
Remind me what SBF did…
make sex, steal money