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YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug

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Social media has platformed many narcissists and psychopaths. They still pose considerable trouble and damage to individuals, even when actually skilled. It boils down to wether skills are all that should be valued in life, or not.

Making jokes and making people laugh is an old trick in the hustler and charmer book. But what is behind the façade? Even the life of a digital nomad, if it's staying in hotel rooms or living alone. Not a good life even for people on the spectrum.

Unfortunately people mix up these oppositional personality traits all the time.

"Karma bit me hard, as a millionaire."

Re: YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug

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post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The deal is that he is a comedian first but also gives advice that is often superficial but serious enough so there is some value to it for beginner developers. It’s both satire and seemingly genuine encouragement. Most importantly he seems to be very good at YouTube marketing. Apparently many have watched his videos, even in this crowd, which means he knows how to attract views. My intuition is that this is a stunt,…

It started out as a stunt. When he realized there is real money to be made he probably changed his opinion.

Strikes me as someone who abuses his position and influence.

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"And I think what makes MillionToken a powerful and genius idea as a ex-google, ex-facebook tech lead myself. you know i'm a genius" - https://youtu.be/-pN8jCpEFy0?t=142 god. do people actually fall for this crap?

He’s joking. It can be very difficult to understand humor but also very rewarding.

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post #98

As I said 3 days ago, when he announced it "If you were to sell 0.001 token for $1.00, you'd then have a Billion Dollar Valuation. ;-) This reminds me of a stock market simulation in my Econ 102 class. With a fellow student, we picked a few stocks, and sold them to each other for a very low price, and then bought all of them up as the other students watched the trends. We repeated this for 1/2 of the stocks in the si…

It is obvious that all the new cryptocurrencies are just like that econ 102 class simulation, and just as vulnerable to gaming, but this time with real money." Isn't the whole stock market? I always wondered, they call these companies "billion dollar companies", but does that take into account the order book and how steep sorted order prices drop of?

As far as I can tell the only criteria is price at close. I assume that all the outstanding sell orders below a given price are filled first, so you couldn't just double the price of Apple, Inc. by swapping two shares at twice the previous closes.

Re: YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug

#136
Apparently trading volume in the last 24 hours was almost all the shares at more than $10.00 each. So if he sold 85% like he said he would, he can now keep a floor price of $1.00 in place forever, and still have made a profit of about $9,000,000.

https://coincost.net/en/currency/million

Re: YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug

#137

This name and his face looks familiar. For some reason I believe he has a bad reputation, but I don’t know why. Can someone ELI5 who this guy is?

Asking for other people to comment on someone's reputation instead of doing that research yourself to make up your own mind is not a good habit. That's an easy way to get manipulated.

You could say this about literally everything in the world. It’s at best a meaningless statement, and at worst a “you’re stupid”. Why? Because you’re always stuck synthesizing from someone else’s options unless you chase everything back to first principles, and who has time for that crap?

It’s simply not worth the effort to spend a couple of hours on Google for some half remembered internet celebrity.

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post #96

Not familiar with his crypto hustle, but I watched some Martin Kleppman talks on YouTube, and Tech Lead commercials started devouring my YouTube. The algorithm mistook me for not knowing how to code? Not sure. Apparently this tech lead guy created programming videos to teach you how to get hired at big tech companies. It turned out the partner guy in the videos wasn’t even a developer but had maybe interned somewhere…

Narcissist sociopath. I'm a huge fan of dry humor (and British) so should be able to read sarcasm or dry humor but he just annoys me. Putting "as a millioaire" in video titles is the most crass thing I've seen.

> Narcissist sociopath. I'm a huge fan of dry humor (and British) so should be able to read sarcasm or dry humor but he just annoys me. Putting "as a millioaire" in video titles is the most crass thing I've seen.

You would describe someone as a narcissistic sociopath from the basis of your web psychoanalysis?

Re: YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug

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post #91

Not familiar with his crypto hustle, but I watched some Martin Kleppman talks on YouTube, and Tech Lead commercials started devouring my YouTube. The algorithm mistook me for not knowing how to code? Not sure. Apparently this tech lead guy created programming videos to teach you how to get hired at big tech companies. It turned out the partner guy in the videos wasn’t even a developer but had maybe interned somewhere…

I never enjoyed TechLead's main channel content but respected him (and still do) for covering the 2019 employee suicide at Facebook when they tried to sweep it under the rug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEQriZEfoI Backstory: an H-1B Facebook Ads-team employee was on a PIP, was denied internal transfer, and had a SEV follow-up task he was called to present at a SEV Review. I don't have any first-hand knowledge of…

Was FB objectively wrong for firing him and he was a good employee? When you say FB tried to sweep it under the rug - what were they exactly in the wrong for? Losing your job being the reason to commit suicide sounds like this employee had bigger mental health issues.

Not defending FB, and I don’t use their products nor believe in anything they’re doing.

Re: YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug

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post #91

Not familiar with his crypto hustle, but I watched some Martin Kleppman talks on YouTube, and Tech Lead commercials started devouring my YouTube. The algorithm mistook me for not knowing how to code? Not sure. Apparently this tech lead guy created programming videos to teach you how to get hired at big tech companies. It turned out the partner guy in the videos wasn’t even a developer but had maybe interned somewhere…

I never enjoyed TechLead's main channel content but respected him (and still do) for covering the 2019 employee suicide at Facebook when they tried to sweep it under the rug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEQriZEfoI Backstory: an H-1B Facebook Ads-team employee was on a PIP, was denied internal transfer, and had a SEV follow-up task he was called to present at a SEV Review. I don't have any first-hand knowledge of…

The H1B probably only caused more pressure on them. It's far worse if you get fired on an H1B.
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