Silly Web App
How people like to describe what a lot of what engineers in silicon valley build. They are sometimes right and sometimes wrong but in either case they are sitting on their asses doing nothing themselves.
Kilim: What the hell is Silicon Valley dictionary. Stop making silly web apps
Matthew: Stop watching tv
zazpowered over 9 years ago
Thought Leader
How somebody without any real skills describes themselves. The phrase itself is self explanatory.
Matthew: tell us why we should hire you
Kilim: I am a thought leader in the area of SAAS
Matthew: what does that even mean
Kilim: I am a thought leader
zazpowered over 9 years agoThis Guy Fucks
Made popular by Russ Hanneman on the Silicon Valley show. It is just something to say when you want to mess with somebody. Meaningless. Could also mean this guy has a lot of sex but its impossible to tell.
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zazpowered over 9 years agoStanford engineer
Smart and entrepreneurial. Usually from a privileged background.
John: Hey you can you look for an office? We will need one soon
Bob: My dad has a house he can lend us. Is that fine?
John: That works.
zazpowered over 9 years agoJanitor at startup
Sometimes startup founders or executives will use this as their title to appear humble but it ends up being super obnoxious.
Matthew: why are you listed as janitor on LinkedIn aren't you the CEO?
Kilim: Oh I just wanted people to ask me about it so I can tell them my real position.
zazpowered over 9 years agoTres Commas
Spanish for three commas as in 1 billion dollars or $1,000,000,000
After the IPO of his company Matthew is now part of the tres commas club
zazpowered over 9 years agoResting and vesting
When you have equity in a company that hasn't fully vested yet and stay at the company even though you have no real role there.
Matthew: Why are you on the roof park all the time, aren't you the VP of marketing?
Hemant: Yes but that's just a title. I'm really resting and vesting
zazpowered over 9 years agoBerkeley Engineer
An engineer that graduated from UC Berkeley, pretty nerdy, not interested in starting their own company
Travis: Hey I have an idea for a new taxi service, do you want to join as a cofounder?
Kilim: No I think I want to work for google. It's very prestigious.
zazpowered over 9 years agoYou mean to say that Berkeley engineers and non-engineering alums founding Intel, Apple, Myspace, Sandisk, Sun Microsystems to name a few is not entrepreneurial enough? UC Berkeley is #2 or #3 when it comes to undergraduates pumping out entrepreneurs, not too far behind Stanford.
SLO Engineer
Engineer that graduated from CalPoly SLO. Good chance of being bro-ey, surprisingly good what they are doing.
Interviewer: So you said you came from SLO..? Cal Poly?
Interviewee: Yeah bro
Interviewer: Bro, I came from there too, you're hired!
mwang over 9 years ago
@davidheming3 I agree. I actually went to Berkeley and I think we are doing well in entrepreneurship but we are still behind Stanford, especially with companies that have started recently. Also this was tongue in cheek and just something I observed in some friends.