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Pretty reasonable photoshops. The sad thing is so many people like this exist and more and more are starting to exist, the internet makes it very easy to preten
by citricsquid 14y ago
Pretty reasonable photoshops. The sad thing is so many people like this exist and more and more are starting to exist, the internet makes it very easy to pretend you're someone you're not and manipulating people that want to get something and think you have it (connections) is even easier.
I'm surprised she hasn't done the customary purchasing of Twitter followers, that seems to be an oh-so common way to artificially inflate your supposed value to the world.
What I don't understand about people like this is if you have the skills to manipulate people into thinking you're connected to important people and get jobs because of it then you can use those skills "legitimately" (in the sense that you're not lying to the people you work with).
oh and also the headline seems pretty sensationalist, it seems she tricked a few no-name startups (ones without a reputation of being important) and got caught making claims of associations with others, although I think what would be most interesting would be "Zaarly" to explain whether she was a good "consultant" or not, not that it ultimately matters at all.
- jwwest 14y agoI actually met her at a YC backed startup where she was doing something with marketing. She struck me as incessantly annoying with name dropping and...how should I put this? Valley fangirl-ism? It was obviously that something was a little off, but wow, did this article strike me by surprise.
- ryguytilidie 14y agoI also met Shirley at the Zaarly crawl when they stopped at our startup. Had pretty much the exact same experience, tons of name dropping, ridiculously overenthusiastic and yeah, valley fangirlism is a great term for it. I knew exactly who they were talking about when I read the title. The valley is a weird place.
- rdl 14y agoThis is a proper use of Quora: http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/Is-Shirley-Hornstein-a-good-social-marketing-consultant-despite-misrepresenting-her-background-and-associations?__snids__=54134892 http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/Is-Shirley-Hornstein-a-g...
- beagle3 14y ago> the internet makes it very easy to pretend you're someone you're not Not really. If anything, it is much easier to fact-check such claims today -- it's just that people are generally lazy. Watch "catch me if you can" (or read the book it is based on) - the internet hasn't made anything about "faking it" easier. It just made hearing about it easier.