collect a check and do no work, 1/3 of startups won't notice
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This is a legit form of tech worker praxis.
If you get a position with some decision-making power, you can also intentionally build a product that undermines the intent of the company. Oh this is a fintech marketing company premised on scamming grannies? Build the whole thing in prolog, make it target bankers instead via a hard-coded XML format, and set it up to catastrophically break 2 weeks after you get another job. Soft pedal good practices like backups and automation, as management will not want you to work on those if they think they're getting in the way of "innovating" a "product". This ensures that when you leave and shit goes down, it's unrecoverable.
Then charge them 5X your salary to "fix it" poorly and it still doesn't even do what they wanted in the first place.
My brother works for a tech-ish startup involved in agriculture. He's in charge of the field work, which is mostly working with farmers and doing soil work all over the country. He's also responsible for hiring in that space, so he's:
a) massively prioritized hiring non-college grads/non-tech people
b) demanded ownership shares for every one of his people
c) gotten massive raises, unlimited PTO, extremely generous travel policy (pay for literally every single hour spent out of town for travel and unlimited per diem)
Because they're flush with VC cash he's funneling as much of it as possible into the non-tech working class segment of the company. It rules.
That's amazing.
I worked at a tech company drowning in VC cash a couple years before the dotcom bubble burst. They spent over 100 million building a new office that looked like the inside of a spaceship from a 70's movie. It had weird fiber optic-like track that made a pulse of light race around the ceiling. They built way too many meeting rooms with cush leather furniture. Everything made out of weathered 1/4 inch plate steel for some reason.
This was all meant to "help our company recruit talent like Google does", despite the fact that the nearly 100% of staff at that location took customer service calls or did IT for the call center.
They did all that, but didn't raise wages, of course. One time the bosses called a meeting to ask, "What can management do to make your jobs better?". Several people asked for higher wages or to expand bonuses. What we got instead was bags of company branded swag like stress balls and t shirts.
I would do that if I wasn't already doing that at my current job lol.
70 trillion dollar industry where over 50% Americans do not have anything or anyone assisting with their finances
"I'm going to charge people money to tell them not to spend money."
or wait are we charging people without money to tell people without money which stocks to put their no money in?
whats the plan here im lost lol
Global GDP is like 90 trillion dollars. I guess counting skills are optional for entrepreneurs.
ML disruption of wealth management 
At least yours is more concise.
the last 6 months in Silicon Valley
Lmao. Just the amount of data torture they have to do to come up with these ridiculous achievements
Wow every day???? Big goals
~~Financial and tax fraud~~ “Disrupting Wealth Management”