“Becoming one of these iconic, impactful companies is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics. In fact, probably more challenging,” Shafi wrote in the memo, which was full of similarly outlandish analogies. “Like the Olympics, we know most people don’t want to be Olympians. In the same way, not everyone will want to walk the path we are walking. But for those that want to push their limits and find out what they are capable of, this culture is for you."

Translation: work long hours and don’t complain, because I stand to make a lot of money from your labour.

I have never heard of this before.

That’s about twice as much as Reddit and Twitter! /hj

Capitalists love their top-down approach

If you have realistic enough bots couldn’t you just sell thier data?

What the heck is a “unicorn social app”?

Shoulda renamed themselves to “less than real life”

Imagine being one of those 1 million monthly active users just realizing that you were talking to a bot most of the time.