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[–] 3 points 9 hours ago* (10 children)

Imagine being one of the richest men in the world and being honeypotted by a 5/10. This along with his AI shenanigans have me thinking that he is a moron and only succeeded through grift

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  • [–] 20 points 9 hours ago* (1 child)

    I have yet to meet a CEO of any of the companies I worked at that wowed me with their intelligence. I have worked at small enough companies to have directly worked with and spoke with the CEOs on multiple occasions. I know when I meet someone bright, and none of them have been it. What they have been good at is bullshitting and talking their way in and out of things. Having communication and coercion skills IMO are a great indicator of your ability to become a C-Suite executive. That and being willing to abandon most other things in life including your family. I guess my point is that the skills required to get into those roles are not always what you assume they should be.... and there is a reason you often find some of the most abhorrent people in said roles.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 hours ago

    I'm in game dev. Went to our CEO in 2004 and asked for a small 3 man team to do a prototype for a physics based mobile game. The answer: "There's just no money in mobile games"

    2009 Rovio released Angry Birds.

    The Angry Birds franchise has generated an estimated $9.54 billion. Which is pretty good, since there's no money in mobile.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    A quote" five of 10" with tremendous enthusiasm for your body and a top level head game would shred through 98% of men.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago

    This was a culmination of a multi year millions of dollars project. There was probably a team of military psychologists reading every post he had ever made, researching his other affairs, a degree of hyper focus that almost nobody on the planet would be worth pursuing.

    There was an episode of darknet diaries about much more ordinary people getting set up like that.

    I don't feel bad for him though, that's life in the fast lane for ya.

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