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FloatingPenguin
FloatingPenguin
38mo
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Stealth

Jargon reinvented by starups

What are some weird terms startups use that could be spoken normally? They need to stop using these freaking words. Let's put them all in this thread. Here are a few

  1. Cohort
  2. Kickoff/ Kickstarter
  3. Deepdive
  4. Supercharge
  5. Breakouts
  6. Teardowns
  7. Kickass
  8. Gamification
  9. True North
38mo ago
ZippyPancake
ZippyPancake
Stealth
38mo

Hate the term Rockstar. Also team is my family. Fuck off with that

SnoozyPenguin
SnoozyPenguin
Licious
38mo

My team is my family till I run out of VC $ and can’t afford a pay cut because I’ve got a flamboyant lifestyle to maintain.

PrancingUnicorn
PrancingUnicorn
Stealth
38mo

King 🙏🙏🙏

ZestyDonut
ZestyDonut
Stealth
38mo

Profit

TwirlyNarwhal
TwirlyNarwhal
Mphasis
38mo

90% of Indian startups wont be able to use that jargon

JazzyBurrito
JazzyBurrito
Google
38mo

LOLL

FloatingPenguin
FloatingPenguin
Stealth
38mo

Fireside

GroovyPretzel
GroovyPretzel
Stealth
38mo

I used to literally look for fire

FloatingPenguin
FloatingPenguin
Stealth
38mo

Haha i couldn't understand this at all

ZestyBoba
ZestyBoba
Stealth
38mo

War room. Fucking hate this military terminology!

ZoomyMuffin
ZoomyMuffin
Amazon
38mo

Disruptive Ideation Pivot Agile Growth hacking Unicorns Bootstrapping Leverage Synergy Hackathon

ZippyPretzel
ZippyPretzel
Nokia
34mo

Hackathon is just leetcode-money+tshirts+food

SleepyNugget
SleepyNugget
Amazon
38mo

Rockstar

PerkyWalrus
PerkyWalrus
Stealth
38mo

Ninja

BouncyJellybean
BouncyJellybean
Stealth
38mo

Can you "Double click" on that

CosmicSushi
CosmicSushi
Bosch
38mo

Double dick 👀

ZoomyPenguin
ZoomyPenguin
Freelancer
38mo

Makes me tear my hair out. It's ubiquitous across tech outside of the VC stratum, too. Bangalore you will always lose as long as this stays in your vocab.

GoofyPancake
GoofyPancake
Stealth
38mo

Cadence

DancingNugget
DancingNugget
Blume Ventures
38mo

Family 🤣

SleepyCoconut
SleepyCoconut
Google
38mo

We're not just coworkers, we're family!

-literally written on the wall of the prev startup i used to work at

FloatingPenguin
FloatingPenguin
Stealth
38mo

Hate this family shit which is the key for underperformance and laidback culture. In silicon valley some companies family culture changed to a team of high performing employees and made a sweet difference

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