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  • Ew. At what point do we just decide that this whole community has eaten itself? Remember when a "YC founder" was a diligent nerd just trying to make something people want and get to ramen-profitable before the runway from their tiny seed check ran out?

    Now being a founder is such a valuable status that it's attracting people who thinking that ghoulish worshipful body art (on the bodies of people afflicted with the same status envy, it needs to be pointed out) is a great idea.

    Do the nerds even have a home anymore?

    by ajross
  • The fantasy series, Farseer trilogy, and beyond (great read) has "Map-Faces". People subjugated to slavery, wearing their current owner's crest on their cheeks so everyone immediately knows who they belong to. Of course, when traded/sold to another, means yet another "map".

    Seems like the valley is getting there and dropping all pretense pretty rapidly.

    by harshalizee
  • I've seen this all over the news. It served its purpose.
    by elmer2
  • As a person covered in tattoos, my greatest fear here would be if the company rebranded.
    by enahs-sf
  • Is it modern slavery already or more nuances required?
    by zx8080

  •     "We need to find smart people who will work 100 hours a week like Musk"
    "How do we do that?"
    "Let's ask them to tattoo our logo before we'll consider interviewing them"
    "brilliant. That shows the kind of commitment we need"
    "The press will be fantastic as well"
    "lets do it"
    by labrador
  • > We are bold, we take risks, and we do things that haven’t been done before.

    This is a very annoying line. Risk for the sake of risk is self-destructive. The risk-reward profile is what matters, and people respect risk taking with large upside.

    Having your company’s logo tattooed on a bunch of random people is zero or negative upside.

    by janalsncm
  • Equally as trashy and sick as Bumfights, the sort of thing that might happen in the early scenes of a documentary exposing the rise and fall of another fraudulent startup. I'm sure he'll be in the 30 under 30 soon.
    by Mizza

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