Silicon Valley has a new insult for performative hustle posts: 'grindslop'
Techies coined a new term for performative posting about hard work on social media. They call it "grindslop."Business Insider spoke with the grindslop accused — and accusers.Who is it all for?
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Techies coined a new term for performative posting about hard work on social media. They call it "grindslop."Business Insider spoke with the grindslop accused — and accusers.Who is it all for? Three founders said that grindslop posts were meant to impress venture capitalists.Han Wang insists his intentions were pure.The 25-year-old cofounder of Mintlify is a prolific X poster, sending off his snippets of management philosophy to the platform's techies. One of his essays fanned the flames of Silicon Valley's hardcore workplace debate.
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- Techies coined a new term for performative posting about hard work on social media. They call it "grindslop."Business Insider spoke with the grindslop accused — and accusers.Who is it all for?
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Silicon Valley has a new insult for performative hustle posts: 'grindslop'
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