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There’s a lie we tell creative people. He was the archetype: MIT dropout, whiteboard-brained, caffeine-sculpted. Lived in a Hacker House with ten other founders, all splitting rent and ramen. 🧵 1/10

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The investor nodded politely, then said, “So… it makes hiring easier?” He said yes, then immediately started talking about vector embeddings. The investor passed. So did the next one. And the one after that. 4/10

A year later, a recruiter launched something similar. Same core idea, worse tech. No behavioral science. No AI. Just a flashy UI and a loud mouth. He was closing deals within weeks. Eventually raised $5 million. I checked his website last month: it’s ugly, but profitable. 5/10