Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
im gonna be honest at a prev co i worked at we did something similar to this. but we didn't post about it because we didn't want the investors to see. I was not a founder at this time. i had to tell the whole team to not post about it publicly, not tag the specific locations, not tag any teammates, and only share with close friends and family members lol. bonus pic of my own private pool in the desert. went skinny dipping in a place where it was *highly* illegal. https://x.com/jaivinwylde/status/1922893404142190637
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Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
i felt pretty disgusted tbh. when you pay a lot of money for things you're surrounded by greedy superficial people. i remember in one of the villas we were in, it came with a menu for plastic surgery, so you could order like botox or a nose job and the doctor would come to your villa and do it there.
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HackingThroughLife
@hnnhstphnz
Looks epic This is me and my sis in Tanzania in 2021! My our dad’s money… for his 60th :)
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shazow
@shazow.eth
scenario 1: pay great salaries so that seasoned high skilled workers choose you vs competitors scenario 2: cut compensation offers by 100k/employee but spend 20k-50k/person/yr on wild offsites imo this is another version of "crazy perks at google campus" outrage in 2010, but startup edition (especially since early rounds are so massive these days) i do think there's a real economic argument to be made here, and many experienced VCs would back it. but on the other hand, you're totally right about the "kinds of people" this attracts, and opulence is decreasingly fashionable.
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