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The real deal folks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjfwxZcsKoI

The funniest part about this video is how he gets absolutely nothing done professionally except read two emails. Driving around to flash his expensive (leased) car doesn't count.

Nothing says you're a successful high-impact CEO like having a camera crew following you around all day as you work out twice and eat salad.

Isn't this a satire?

Not intentionally anyway. If it was intentional, it was to grab attention (like include a mistake in a tweet), but it seems serious and on-brand for an influencerpreneur.

These kinds of windows into a life explain how some entrepreneur/CEO types can be owner and/or CEO of like three businesses, on the board of a couple others, in some kind of advisory role on a couple startups, and so on, and still always seem to be starting or trying to get a hand in some new thing: it's because they don't really do jack shit.

Meanwhile the peons get an anti-moonlighting clause and absurd claims over any work done in off-hours.

Being an owner (with a title of CEO) means they aren't spending their labour, or time, but merely capital. Therefore, it's correct that they don't get jackshit done.

However, a real CEO, without any capital investment in the company themselves, would get fired if they did that imho. Or at least, if i were the owner, and that's what i observe the CEO i hired to run the company.

I honestly can't tell if this is satire or not.

When I read “24 year old CEO” I think of Hinton:

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/what-happens-when-the-b...

I honestly thought it was satire until the comments showed otherwise. Eat clean… cocktails. Hustle by taking long drives.

And the rest? What is wrong with keeping a schedule, running, resistance training, eating healthy?

Also, long drives are mentioned in the context of "unwind after work" (I see nothing obviously wrong with it).

Alcohol is bad, avoid it if you can but no social life may be worse.

None of that is inherently bad. He talks a lot of working hard to maintain multiple brands/companies while everything shown is pure vanity, which is why I thought it was satire.

I don’t know anything about what he does but in reality people don’t have time to work out twice a day, take long relaxing drives, meet their friends, eat healthy and do 5x the work of an average CEO.

Finally, an innovation in dating site profiles!

That was my first thought as well. Is this a dating profile?

kept waiting for the punchline that never dropped.

Wow. This is literally poison for the mind and soul.

The real Patrick Batemen folks

Ouch

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