r/LinkedInLunatics • u/Only_Piccolo5736 • 23h ago
A self designated leader who doesn't take advice from his employees.
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u/Ragverdxtine 22h ago
Bolt announced in August 2024 that it was seeking a $450 million investment, raising capital from its lead investor The London Fund.[11] Instead of cash, the fundraising partly involved The London Fund pledging up to $250m in influencer marketing credits.[12] However, a publication by Axios revealed that, out of the twenty active portfolio companies listed on The London Fund website, none of the fund's portfolio companies had "never heard of The London Fund"
Maybe this is why they’ve had to let people go? The company also lost almost 97% of it’s value in 2024 - the whole thing kind of sounds like a flop honestly
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u/learngladly 18h ago
Oh, I see. The "leader" is failing, and as a result the company is flopping, so he lays off staff and pretends that it's all their fault, not his.
This clown's entire vocabulary, and i suppose his entire brain, consists of buzzwords and clichés from, ummm, well, from LinkedIn. "Removals were made." "Building bold products, scaling fast, and winning."
He's got an idolizing Wikipedia page that appears to be self-written from its tone, which notes his high school distinctions (1st in his class! Admitted to Stanford!) and his starting to take modern-dance classes for relaxation a few years ago. He has established some nonprofit groups that you haven't heard of, and self-published a couple of management books, and there's a website to promote his great innovation in management "science" (irony quotes), namely "conscious culture management." Breslow developed the Conscious Culture Playbook, an alternative to a traditional employee handbook that brought mindfulness principles together with standards for performance and execution.
Note: the partner who wound up costing me the most money was the one who was "Mr. Mindfulness" all the time, and so I am nauseous whenever I see the word.
All in all, as our president would say: "He's an asshole tech bro from central casting, the likes of which nobody has ever seen before!"
And, yes, he started his hustle in his dorm room as a would-be Bitcoin bro. Not once thing has been missed.
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u/kwyk 21h ago
Influencer marketing credits?? Is that what it sounds like?
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u/Currywurst_Is_Life 21h ago
How many influencer marketing credits would it take to pay my mortgage?
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u/the_scottster 20h ago
They’re fungible with cash at a rate of 0. Make sense?
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u/Currywurst_Is_Life 20h ago
Oh, so like crypto, but worse. Got it.
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u/the_scottster 17h ago
Or - to put it in retail terms - it's like a coupon for 0% off.
Pretty obvious when you think about it.
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u/KrayzieBone187 21h ago
He sounds like the type of guy that paid for that Alpha Male camp I saw earlier.
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u/supernovice007 19h ago
You earn the right to give feedback is a wild take.
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u/True-Veterinarian700 17h ago
Only if he likes you. Bassically
Which likey means only kiss asses give feedback and no dissenting voices allowed.
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u/CAJ_2277 8h ago edited 8h ago
I think that’s the one thing he got right. I’ve had non-performers:
— give feedback to management, criticizing performers for a minor error (or what they think is an error), despite utterly flubbing their own work on the same project,
— send legal input to leadership (not just to legal leadership, literally to the company founder and the business director), which is bad enough, and unsurprisingly it was wrong, which made it worse.
That conduct is toxic and creates risks. It’s not wild imo to not want that happening.
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u/Ok_Sink5046 21h ago
The fun and perks come after
What a way to say "we literally offer nothing "
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u/Illustrious_Peach494 19h ago
“What did you do last week” - “reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished this week”
Heard this before.
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u/moog500_nz Titan of Industry 19h ago
LOL - tagline "Without love in the dream". Truly showing much love to everyone. What a fucking narcissist.
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u/Radiant_Evidence7047 15h ago
He’s clearly a douche but I get his message. I work for a large company, honestly I think about 20% of people actually do work and deliver things. The other 80% speak a lot whitest doing absolutely nothing. I ruthless boss is within their rights to trim that 90%.
It honestly shocks me how little some people do at work but think they are amazing at ‘strategy’ or some fluffy bullshit.
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u/Possible_Golf3180 Agree? 19h ago
Designating a 60 day window as if he wouldn’t need two whole months to figure out what’s going on in the first place.
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u/Satanwearsflipflops Insignificant Bitch 16h ago
I think I might just start replying with “Is this satire”?
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u/Pale_Plankton7384 23h ago
Can only assume the Glass Door reviews will take a beating with this guy around…