Ok I'm sorry but both of these tweets are funny, if only because the tech community's hubris and cluelessness is on full display.
First person is trying to contrast herself with the "1%" but if you read what her startup does it's literally a concept that caters almost exclusively to people with large disposable incomes. (A service for busy people to give them personal assistant style reminders about things they might forget to do such as buy backpacks and lunchboxes for your children from the pottery barn)
Second person literally joined in the bank run, had all of his money wired out of SVB and then, immediately after doing that, buys shares in SVB because he "knows the CEO" and feels it's a good bank.
Honestly we did this to ourselves folks. Idiocy on full display. People are laughing at us and we probably deserve it.
I’m laughing because between all his group chats, he didn’t call his good friend the CEO to see what is up?
> 1:30 PM: SVB is a solid bank. I know their CEO, Greg Becker. Great guy. I figure this is a temporary issue caused mainly by people panicking. They'll recover.
> First person is trying to contrast herself with the "1%" but if you read what her startup does it's literally a concept that caters almost exclusively to people with large disposable incomes. (A service for busy people to give them personal assistant style reminders about things they might forget to do such as buy backpacks and lunchboxes for your children from the pottery barn)
Isn't that like saying waiters working at 5 stars restaurants frequented by 1% are themselves 1% ? Or the guy setting up the wifi and internet for the restaurant is also a 1% ?
Do you really need someone to explain to you how being a funded startup founder is different than being an hourly worker on tipped wage at upscale restaurant?
Is that a serious, genuine question or are you just trying to deflect criticism with a bad-faith take? I literally cannot tell anymore because this is the same lack of self-awareness present in her tweet. It's part of why people have come to hate our community and it's culture.
> Do you really need someone to explain to you how being a funded startup founder is different than being an hourly worker on tipped wage at upscale restaurant?
All I am saying is that person is not a 1% and not even close. She has every rights to contrast herself from them.
> Is that a serious, genuine question or are you just trying to deflect criticism with a bad-faith take?
I worded it as a question to soften it and leave the door opened to criticism. But if your stance is that those people are entitled or fake poor or hypocrites and deserved to be laughed at, frankly.. oh well, whatever.
First person is trying to contrast herself with the "1%" but if you read what her startup does it's literally a concept that caters almost exclusively to people with large disposable incomes. (A service for busy people to give them personal assistant style reminders about things they might forget to do such as buy backpacks and lunchboxes for your children from the pottery barn)
Second person literally joined in the bank run, had all of his money wired out of SVB and then, immediately after doing that, buys shares in SVB because he "knows the CEO" and feels it's a good bank.
Honestly we did this to ourselves folks. Idiocy on full display. People are laughing at us and we probably deserve it.