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| ▲ | reilly3000 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/13/founders-dropouts-ycombina... This article provides more examples. They wanted to stand out in a community that has become known for its excesses. |
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| ▲ | gverrilla 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > The founder of Corgi, a YC insurance tech company with a $4 billion reported valuation, known for running a Corgi cafe without any dogs, recently said (opens in new tab) that two-thirds of his early staff members have a company tattoo. 2 freaks, at the very very very least. |
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| ▲ | thephyber 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Wait. Apples and oranges. People who haven't even been interviewed let alone hired getting a company brand is one thing. But coworkers (and likely friends) getting a company tattoo after getting hired seems completely plausible, especially if it has grown successful into a unicorn. | | |
| ▲ | gverrilla 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > two thirds of early employees. unless he had exactly 3 employees, I'd say it's freakish. |
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| ▲ | ls-a 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| absolutely contrary. You are who you surround yourself with. These people have a private social network called bookface. Hidden from the rest of the world |
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| ▲ | fragmede 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | It sounds sinister when you say it like that, but I've got private group chats with my friends that are "hidden from the rest of the world" and someone shares pictures of their dog or music they liked. I think tattooing people with a company logo for an interview is fucked up, but let's not pull out the guillotines just because certain people are having secret encrypted private conversations with each other. | | |
| ▲ | EA-3167 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | If you're advertising that you're going to permanently mark your almost certainly transient brand on desperate people for the promise of just an interview, I think it's fair to wonder what you'd prefer to keep hidden. In your case it's all puppies and rainbows, but presumably your public face is also quite a bit milder than, "Sure get the tattoo and maybe I'll see if you can make it to the next round of interviews, hope you're ready to work 7-day weeks if you make it!" | | |
| ▲ | thephyber 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I get the feeling you read the outrage headline and assumed the worst. In practice, the company held a party, invited a local professional tattoo artist to give free tattoos, and the CEO said "if you get a tattoo, I think that's worth an interview". HN is blowing this up to be worst case scenario, but it was just stupid messaging and optics. The company was trying to get people to come to their party, not demand company tattoos before anyone can submit their resume for consideration. Dude, go touch some grass. | | |
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| ▲ | EA-3167 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Lets be real, they aren't. This is a community that was notorious for sycophancy, desperation, and cruelty for quite some time now if the success of the show 'Silicon Valley' indicates anything. This is the community that keeps justifying limitless greed with the belief that we're building the future, while increasingly the future being built is defined by terms like, "Enshittification." |
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| ▲ | thephyber 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > if the success of the show 'Silicon Valley' indicates anything That show was created by the creator of Office Space. They were both fictional and satire. Just because it was popular and there were some nuggets of truth in the jokes doesn't mean that every startup in Silicon Valley is as extreme of a cult as WeWork was. |
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| ▲ | greekrich92 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Noted sociopath Sam Altman is the most visible member of the commumity. it's the right judgement. |
