How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explained

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How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explained

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Airbnb (n) – A hotel company that figured out how to avoid the expense of owning hotels or employing hotel workers.
Apple (n) – America’s first trillion-dollar company, which achieved inordinate success through groundbreaking products such as the Macintosh, iPod and iPhone.
bootstrap (v) – To start a company without venture capital.
cloud, the (n) – Servers.
data (n) – A record of everything you do involving the internet – which is increasingly synonymous with everything you do, period.
employee (n) People who work for a tech company and are eligible for health insurance and retirement benefits.
Google (n) – The privacy-devouring tech company that does everything that Facebook does, but manages to get away with it, largely because its products are useful instead of just depressing.
Advocates for ideological diversity argue that corporate efforts to increase the representation of historically marginalized groups – women, African Americans and Latinos, among others – should also be required to increase the representation of people who believe that women, African Americans and Latinos are inherently unsuited to work in tech.
IPO (n) Initial public offering – when a company begins allowing regular people to buy shares.
microdosing (n) – Taking small amounts of illegal drugs while white.
mission (n) – What separates a tech bro and a finance bro: the tech bro works for a company that has a “mission”.
off-site (n) – A work event at a non-work location.
pivot (v) – What tech startups do when they realize scaling is not a business model without a monetization strategy.
platform (n) – A website that hosts user-generated content.
privacy (n) – Archaic.
runway (n) – The amount of venture capital a startup has left before it has to either monetize its product, pivot or start selling the office furniture.
Snapchat (n) – Facebook’s research and development department

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