> <i>In a note to employees, obtained by TechCrunch, former CEO and founder Abraham Shafi encouraged employees to “adapt” and “be disciplined,” citing that WhatsApp grew to 450 million users with a team of just 55.</i><p>> <i>“Becoming one of these iconic, impactful companies is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics. In fact, probably more challenging,” Shafi wrote in the memo, which was full of similarly outlandish analogies. “Like the Olympics, we know most people don’t want to be Olympians. In the same way, not everyone will want to walk the path we are walking. But for those that want to push their limits and find out what they are capable of, this culture is for you.”</i><p>With every day that passes I become more convinced that <i>Silicon Valley</i> was a documentary.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here but I miss when you could be fairly confident something was written by a human or bot online.<p>Although it's going to be a very interesting shift with AI developing so fast.<p>Will face to face be the only true way to verify you're talking to a human soon?