Short story by A. Molitor The loneliest place in America is the bar at the right sort of hotel on the wrong sort of night. A dim and echoing expanse furnished from Ikea’s secret catalog of dark fur…
  • FredFig@awful.systemsEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The slightly grimy, cynical tone is very well done, really made me feel like a soulless suit.

    I wonder how much M&As still hinge on demos working at this point, isn’t it an open secret that every startup is run by hustlers?

    actually, this is lampshaded directly here:

    seemed slightly surprised that _______ would be acquiring a genuinely pretty valuable company.

    • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      This is a work of fiction that Andrew just made up on holiday, but we are quite sure a dozen completely separate startup bros will be outraged that he lightly reskinned their life story