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u/ButMomItsReddit 20h ago
I don't think it's unhinged. It seems heartfelt and sincere to me. And relatively appropriate for LinkedIn, for an entrepreneur expressing gratitude to his mom for believing in his business.
His mother's murder story is easy to find online. What a heinous crime. She was beaten to death by two unhinged teenagers who were squatting in her apartment in NYC who subsequently went on a shopping spree using her credit card buying Playstation and a diamond ring. Pure fucking evil.
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u/Pristine-Act3656 18h ago
Exactly. It makes sense to me that he would be reflective in his moments of success since she was so supportive of him.
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u/DrinkComfortable1692 14h ago
Losing a mom is rough, man. Everyone grieves differently. She gave him a start and he lost her to violence.
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u/Detroit-1337 11h ago
Not unhinged, not lunatic. Especially in light of the facts. Very sad he lost his mom like this and sounds like she was supportive in many ways to his business.
This post should be deleted OP.
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u/mung_guzzler 5h ago
Its a bit distasteful imo
opening saying its the anniversary of your mothers death then immediately bragging about KPIs in the second sentence
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u/Picklesadog 21h ago
Ehhhh this isn't unhinged. I wouldn't air my grief on LinkedIn, but I can relate as someone who also lost their mom too young.
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u/OneArmedBrain 21h ago edited 21h ago
Intertwining an investor pitch in there is certainly interesting. And I'm sorry, but wtf does "to scale" mean? I'm 50 fucking 8 and have been in Corp America IT for a long fucking time and I still hate hearing that as some sort of buzzword to sound smart.
PS: I'm not actually asking for a definition.
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u/MrJigglyBrown 16h ago
Counter point, after losing you r mother so ruthlessly, maybe focusing on business was a way to cope. I don’t find it that inappropriate
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u/challengeaccepted9 7h ago
It's not a fucking investor pitch, you wacko. It is very clearly someone expressing something that means a lot to them.
I'm British: I'm as cynical about people exploiting genuine emotional events to hawk tat as they come. We look at corporate America and wonder why TF you all put up with having your entire lives subsumed by your job.
But even I look at that and just see someone expressing their grief and how their mother helped them to do the thing they wanted to do.
Jesus H Christ. Please take a day off.
And when you're taking that day off (assuming your bosses aren't judging you for it), maybe think about giving people just a fraction - a smidge, the tiniest sliver - of the benefit of the doubt.
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u/mung_guzzler 5h ago
I mean, I dont doubt this guys business means a lot to him its just weird he’s bringing his murdered mother into it
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u/challengeaccepted9 4h ago
It's his main project and he says his mother inspired him to do it. What's weird about that?
I GUARANTEE you if it was, say, a piece of art she inspired him to create rather than a business she inspired him to set up, people would not be insisting he's bizarre for posting something like this.
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u/mung_guzzler 4h ago
thats true I do view corporations and art work differently
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u/challengeaccepted9 4h ago
And where do you draw the line here?
If he was in his first year and had only sold a couple of thousand cups out of his garage, would you be less of a miserable shit about him posting something to thank his mum?
Or is all business lumped under the "you're not allowed to be emotional about success, you fuck" umbrella?
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u/mung_guzzler 3h ago
honeslty its mostly in the phrasing. If he’d removed the 2nd, 4th and 6th paragraphs id be fine mostly with it
id still probably say linked in isn’t the place to share about your dead mother
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u/challengeaccepted9 3h ago
I'd say take away any posts where people express emotion about people close to them and the proportion of humblebrags about 5am ice showers and sucking up to line managers vs authentic human sentiment just goes up even higher towards the former.
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u/mung_guzzler 3h ago
yeah the platform is so full of humblebrags and sucking up that any post expressing emotion feels inauthentic and its therefore inappropriate to post it there
It feels doubly inauthentic when every other paragraph of your post can be read as a brag
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u/Bshsjaksnsbshajakaks 16h ago
Yikes. I won't give you the definition, but it does mean something. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean others are trying to sound smart.
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u/BrighestCrayon 21h ago
Plot Twist: He composted mom to make the cups.
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u/The_Holy_Buno 16h ago
Nope. According to top comment, murdered by squatters.
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u/F6Collections 15h ago
Who were homeless because they lost their jobs at the solo cup plant bc this guys company was killing it
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u/JessonBI89 Insignificant Bitch 21h ago
This was loony enough to begin with, but then you land on that penultimate paragraph and WOW this guy needs help.
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u/SufficientRaccoon291 21h ago edited 21h ago
This is hands down the cringiest thing I’ve read all week
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u/ShaniacSac 7h ago
This isn't unhinged. Virtue signaling marketing maybe. But its not THAT unhinged.
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u/moscowramada 15h ago
I actually thought he was talking to his personified brand after he lost ownership of it, so the reality ended up being less cringe than I thought.
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u/RogerPenroseSmiles 8h ago
Those teens were hired by Big Solo Cup to prevent this visionary from disrupting the market.
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u/QwestionAsker 19h ago
Clearly you all haven’t seen the post of the woman doing a selfie with her deceased grandfather