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Sex toy startup has some big backers
- pw0ncakes 17y agoIts original line of toys started at $175 and included a $3,250 diamond-studded platinum vibrator. The nouveau-riche joke just made itself.
- weeksie 17y agoBrilliant. I'm glad to see a sex positive startup being recognised for its value, rather than shunned because investors are too prudish to see value. This kind of stuff really improves the quality of people's lives, creates value, and generally makes the world a better place.
- btilly 17y agoI'll bet their market research is fun... However there are real challenges in having a company like that on your resume. A couple of (male) co-workers of mine were interviewing an attractive woman who had been doing brand management for K-Y jelly. They managed to hold it together for a while. Then they lost it when she began blithely talking about how their advertising campaign lead to increased (market) penetration. Yeah, my co-workers should have been more mature. But I'll bet that was not the first or last time she got that kind of response. (Hopefully she learned to be more careful of the potential double-entendres.)
- HeyLaughingBoy 17y agoYou're assuming that she wasn't aware of how her words would be interpreted. I think she knew exactly what she was doing. If you can make your interviewer laugh, your chances of getting the job just went way up.
- btilly 17y agoIf that was her reasoning, it backfired. The reaction from both interviewers was that having her around would be incredibly awkward and personally embarrassing, so she was turned down.
- anigbrowl 17y agoApparently if you build it, they will come.
- DarthMark 17y agoThat joke was anti-climatic.