The Uber of X: A translation of 47 startup one-liners

This article seems to be trying to disarm tech elitism by diving into the deep end of it, but by and large the humor is pretty forced and the tone condescending.<p>I&#x27;d also recommend that the author remove the attempt at being edgy at the end with the snide reference to the reports of sexual harassment at Uber. Especially the cheeky &quot;too soon?&quot;, which simultaneously acknowledges the gravity of the situation for the victims while also dismissing it entirely in favor of an attempted joke.

Wherein our intrepid author discovers that<p>a) social groups develop jargon that is often impenetrable to outsiders<p>b) humor is really hard.<p>c) The in-group doesn&#x27;t care for being made fun of, and the outgroup doesn&#x27;t care about the jargon - and so the article will be much less popular than others they wrote

The translation of lean-startup means absolutely nothing, link tells me to buy a book. No.<p>being told what I am thinking about things is really needlessly confusing, because its often wrong, then I need to remind myself that those statements arn&#x27;t meant to teach me anything, but instead make me laugh? I don&#x27;t know.<p>It&#x27;d be better to have like, 1 line of joke per 5-10 dotpoints, not 2-3+ lines of joke per dotpoint, that is my opinion though

Uber but for X demonstrates how a lot of startups are trying to reinvent stuff that already exists, but works around labour laws on a technicality.

&gt;We are going to keep things simple and use a convertible note with 20% discount and a $4M cap. &gt; Normal’s response: That doesn’t sound simple at all.<p>Why is this not simple? I thought the point of convertible note&#x2F;safe was to make seed round as simple as possible. Is there something I am missing?

Always thought moving fast and breaking things was the least intelligent approach to any problem..except when people can only learn things the hard way and are in too much of a hurry to do anything but cash the check.

Just in this second I wanted to post this. You beat me by seconds :)

&gt; We’re running out of dry powder so we asked our existings for a bridge.<p>&gt; After not achieving product&#x2F;market fit, we’ve decided to pivot into an adjacency.<p>&gt; We started looking for a soft-landing and got an acquihire offer from an 800-pound gorilla.<p>&gt; Did you see all the skeletons in their S-1? At least they are in the three commas club.<p>I&#x27;m honestly not sure if this is real or just clever satire.