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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
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ZippyPancake
ZippyPancake
Stealth33mo

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

SnoozyPenguin
SnoozyPenguin
Licious33mo

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
Stealth33mo

King 🙏🙏🙏

ZestyDonut
ZestyDonut
Stealth33mo

Profit

TwirlyNarwhal
TwirlyNarwhal
Mphasis33mo

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

JazzyBurrito
JazzyBurrito
Google33mo

LOLL

FloatingPenguin
FloatingPenguin
Stealth33mo

Fireside

GroovyPretzel
GroovyPretzel
Stealth33mo

I used to literally look for fire

FloatingPenguin
FloatingPenguin
Stealth33mo

Haha i couldn't understand this at all

ZestyBoba
ZestyBoba
Stealth33mo

War room. Fucking hate this military terminology!

ZoomyMuffin
ZoomyMuffin
Amazon33mo

Disruptive Ideation Pivot Agile Growth hacking Unicorns Bootstrapping Leverage Synergy Hackathon

ZippyPretzel
ZippyPretzel
Nokia29mo

Hackathon is just leetcode-money+tshirts+food

SleepyNugget
SleepyNugget
Amazon33mo

Rockstar

PerkyWalrus
PerkyWalrus
Stealth33mo

Ninja

BouncyJellybean
BouncyJellybean
Stealth33mo

Can you "Double click" on that

CosmicSushi
CosmicSushi
Bosch33mo

Double dick 👀

ZoomyPenguin
ZoomyPenguin
Freelancer33mo

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
Stealth33mo

Cadence

DancingNugget
DancingNugget
Blume Ventures33mo

Family 🤣

SleepyCoconut
SleepyCoconut
Google33mo

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

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

FloatingPenguin
FloatingPenguin
Stealth33mo

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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