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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SUNDAY, 12 OCTOBER 1975
Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call.
With a waitlist, a subscription, and no customers.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You're not a CEO. You're one person with a logo, a free email account…
- Synergy is two departments confused about the same thing at once. They'll merge. You'll…
- Your company's core values are printed on the wall. So nobody has to have…
- No pain, no gain. You chose neither. Your heart has noted it in your…
- Your favourite music is now called "a classic". So are you. It means old.
- You hyped your mate's mixtape. You've never listened to it. Neither has anyone. Including…
- Your toddler has stronger opinions about sock seams than you've had about anything since…
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