Dude found out that the World is not revolving around him and his startup, and he even shared that meaningful lesson with everyone

  • I like that he couldn't even think of three normal uses for the word crisp and had to make up the most awkward sentences

    Right?! Because everyone talks about “enjoying the crisp of… tomato.

    It's wierd becuse he also doesn't seem to know what crisp means.

    Like he is using it to mean crunchy/crispy...and at the same time "A bit of"

    He wants to say "Enjoy this bit of crunchy tomato" or "Let's cut a bit of crispy bread"

    And thinks that just "Crisp" replaces all the words in that sentence

    I mean, he did say he's hallucinating it. Maybe they just said "enjoy the tomato." Which is still a pretty weird thing to say.

    "Enjoy a Bob's Auto Sales of tomato."

    DID SOMEONE SAY BOB’S AUTO SALES

    err…In my language “Bob’s Auto Sales” means “a slice of crispy bread”

    He’s out of his crisping mind.

    Eh - in high end fine dining it could refer to a small slice prepared in a specific way. It’s a little bit r/stupidfood material but serving a dish with a crisp of tomato seems very likely at a pretentious restaurant.

    It’s kind of like how American English uses nip to mean a small bite with teeth but British English uses it to mean anything small or short (I just nipped into the shops for a can of beans)

    If we want to stand a chance against the oppressive forces of Reddit fiction we need to stand united and stop pretending there's a shred of possibility in dumb, obviously made up stories.

    I'm sorry, I meant to say if there's a crisp of hope, we need to crisp together and stop giving a crisp of doubt to stories with the crispiest credibility.

    If this were "high end dining", if the wait staff were instructed on describing the food, they'd be given pitch lines from the folks preparing it and not inventing shit on the spot. No self-respecting chef is going to have the waitstaff tank their reputation because they either (a) didn't know what they were talking about and couldn't tell the difference between a compote and a salsa or a pate and a puree, or (b) kept using one word to describe everything.

    I showed this thread to my 5-year-old, and he said, "favorite parental figure of mine, why did these cretins lambast the dutiful and diligent small business owner for his endearing story of hard-won self-awareness and brand recognition?"

    Kids really cut to the heart of the matter, don't they?

    But it's "very likely" because it "could" be a thing that happens though, you heard the man!

    Nipple.

    1- Thing to take a small bite of during intimacy.

    2- Small boob.

    Haha.

    Who the fuck would think a crispy tomato is acceptable food?

    Nothing I like more with my meal than a crunchy, crispy tomato.

    Hey save some of that crisp tomato for the rest of us!

    I always think "crisp" when referencing wet vegetables.😐

    I think it's usually dry things that are crisp. . .

    No, you don’t understand. Crisp means bread. Bread of tomato. See?

    He asked his ai to write the prompt

    “Enjoy this crispy crisp of Crispers.”

    I'd be a little disturbed if my tomatoes were crispy. Maybe if they were fried green tomatoes that would be okay.

    Also who the hell says "crisp of X". It's a potato crisp, not a crisp of potato.

    Naw that's common in uppity food places cooking, it's from french. You'll see slaw of X a lot too.

    In Chinese food too. As in “the cream of sum yung guy”

    That's a crisp reference!

    Also why does he think the waiter would just drop hints he knows of his company by slipping the word in unrelated sentences??

    “I went to the UK and saw in TESCO the aisle marked “crisps” and I thought ‘wow they know I am here! But they spelt the brand name wrong.’

    I immediately called the director of marketing, it was 2am back home but he answered the phone because that’s how we Krisp.

    I asked him why our product was spelt differently in the UK, he was totally confused and hung up on me.

    Then I realised that it was the chips aisle!

    Today I learnt that words have different meanings.”

    That’s how we Krisp.

    Crispbread is a type of bread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispbread I am actually eating some just now as I type this. It is still very popular in Finland.

    But in this case is suspect them eating Korppu which is bit different, it's a type of Rusk bread. Which can be translated as a "crisp". Especially the sourcrisp Hapankorppu, which is like a thin rye cracker which is served as like a starter or finger food with like tomato, onions, and cheese on top of it; also fish, mayo based spreads, or just melted butter with some salt... (Oh god it's so good).

    I don't know! Maybe this is just something that I can totally get only because I am from Finland. Because my first though was "Oh... They mean korppu or näkkäri". Then again... I was eating näkkäri.

    I think that's his point. The restaurant used such weird names that he couldn't tell if it was just pretension or someone trying to be funny with his company.

    Tbf, I sorta did the same thing for songs in my "partying" days. Posting it on linked in, and admitting your so wired or self-absorbed that you think a waiter describing food thinks its about your company? He probably wired/spun and his minds moving too fast too think about what hes saying or doing first...

  • Certified lunatic.

    This is one of the few legit lunatics posted here

    Yeah. he has actually lost his mind over his dog shit startup.

    what do they do?

    noise-cancelling tech. i see it on discord, you can enable better noise-cancelling that uses krisp

    If it works, can we use it on this asshat?🤔

    Well he's doing something right discord uses it.

    People love to hate for the sake of it. That LinkedIn post is revolting, but has no bearing on whether his company provides a good service/product or not. People will be willingly ignorant and dismissive to the likely talented employees of that company just because a LinkedIn post made them cringe, strange times lol

    "Revolting" is pretty harsh. Embarrassing, definitely. Sad, sure. Pathetic, probably. To me, revolting suggests some sort of moral or ethical failure, or just being gross and creepy. This guy may be embarrassing, sad, and pathetic; but he doesn't sound like an evil asshole in this post.

    Agreed. He doesn't sound like those start-up founders who post shit about working 1000 hours a week (even if it doesn't make sense at all)

    Or the ones who find three 8 hour "days" in a 25 hour day and how that gets them ahead of everyone else.

    Well, yes, people will be turned off when the "brand awareness" of the company gets Google-linked to delusional posts like this.

    Like, that's how brands and marketing work?

    Krisp voice isolation is actually kind of insane. I’ve washed dishes with running water in the sink while talking to someone on AirPods and they couldn’t hear any of it.

    I've used a typewriter in Discord calls and the others couldn't hear it. It's wild.

    That shit sucks. There's always a half-second to a second when I speak over discord with that activated where my voice just doesn't register. Legitimately the worst noise canceling I've encountered.

    Ok on hate aside its really not bad actually.

    AS A FOUNDER

    CO-FOUNDER 😂

    I came here for this comment😂😂

    Self-Professed Certified Lunatic

    SPCL™️

    You can be one, too - just take this $3500, 6-week course and pay $500 annually for renewal!

    A self aware lunatic

    They're learning

    Ps typing "they're learning" into the gif search leads to an unsettling amount of Bubba Gump

    4th result is a woman saying "put a baby in me". What the hell is going on over at GIPHY?

    Any remotely sane person would keep this absolute humiliation of a story to themselves and be horribly embarrassed every time they remembered about it lying at bed at 2am.

    Reply: Badge unlocked: Realizing the universe doesn’t orbit your startup

    At least he is aware that he is hallucinating

    Legendary mental gymnastics-Olympic gold in startup delusions

    Waitress: “I’m going to douche. Oh, hey Arto!” 

    I’ll be honest though, his company does make a really good service, I wish more voice chat applications would implement it.

  • More importantly, what is a “crisp of a tomato” and how can I ensure I never eat one?

    The best way to ensure you never eat one is to continue living in reality because this 100% never happened.

    I assume it's like a dehydrated and/or deep fried tomato slice, analogous to potato crisp/chip? Might be a semi-interesting appetizer to try.

    It’s irrelevant because the experience he’s describing never occurred. The entire post is an insult to the intelligence of anyone who has never tried to turn on their television with a calculator.

    Probably, but I now want tomato chips, it sounds interesting.

    Seriously. Salted and peppered tomato chips with some sort of olive-oily dip sound delicious.

  • I went to school with a guy called Noel who was born on christmas (hence the name). He believed that people celebrated because of him. He stopped believing that at age 9

    This guy probably still thinks Art is named after him

    Much more acceptable for a kid to think such things. Although probably should have stopped thinking that much sooner than 9.

    He was prrtty full of himself even at an early age

    Maybe would've helped if you all stopped celebrating his birthday every year by going fucking all out, just saying... ;)

    Noel who was born on christmas (hence the name)

    doing this to a child is a war-crime

    Yeah. Born on same day I got the other one. Hard to spell at 4 but pos def the better

    Your name is Christ?

    Kreighstmoughs

    Combining the season with a tragedeigh

    his name is BoxingDayEve

    mele kalikimaka

    I was so sad when I found out that no, the nearby church wasn't named after me. (Neither was I named after the patron saint of the church, my parents moved there years after I was born, it was just an accident.)

    Someone stole your comment and commented something very similar to it on the original LinkedIn post:

    I went to school with a girl named Holly who was born on Christmas and believed that people celebrated that holiday because of her.

    She stopped believing that at around 7 years old.

    Either that or you guys are both bots.

    Well, im not a bot and Noel is in his 30s

    It could also be that multiple children had similar ideas when they were young

    I was weirdly aggressive in that comment, completely my bad. Sorry for accusing you of inhumanity

    "Yep, I'm the first. That's why they keep saying that."

    Unfortunate for him. Had he kept being a believer, he too could have been a founder.

    Get bent Noel!

  • I went to a restaurant recently, and the waitress kept using the word bone.  

    "Here is your bone broth."   "Please don't use our office bone for personal calls."   "You bone $123.40."  "Your bone is sticking out of your arm."

    I asked if she wanted to bone me. She looked surprised and said "no. Gross." 

    Lesson learned.  

    Don't go out to eat immediately after a serious car accident. 

    here’s what car accidents taught me about B2B sales

    Bone2bone (as in orthopedic surgeon, or Grindr)

    Crispy Bone Disease

    Ask not for whom the bone bones. It bones for thee.

    You get my unexpected laugh of the day!

  • LinkedIn really turns every minor inconvenience into a TED Talk but hey, at least we’re all getting free life lessons in the feed.

    ‘Life lessons’? You mean, the sad ramblings of a self-important twerp?

    Deranged ramblings lol. 

    Why the hell would a waiter ever mention your dumbass noise cancellation startup? Why would anyone reference it when talking about tomatoes? What the fuck is a crisp of tomato, and how is that associated with bread?

    This dude is a dumb guy who is trying to make a joke, or he’s actually lost it. Either way, what the fuck is wrong with him lol, does have literally 0 dignity 

    Assuming the story has some basis in reality (not just a rambled story where he could try to advertise), his mind frame is likely one very selfcentered if not outright narcissistic. ‘Not only does this waiter know who I am and my company, he’s probably dropping hints to open the door and ask for a job, and I am impressed because he feed my ego.’

    All we're getting is excellent content for this subreddit.

    Lmao I actually follow certain people specifically for their insane LinkedIn posts that are actually real. They seem like satire, but they are people I know in real life and have worked with. Nobody wants to hear you relate your vacation at Everest Base camp to how any team can overcome the tallest mountains by blah blah blah blah

    I'm hoping OP's screenshot was satire but if not: Main characters lack the self-awareness to realize their filler episodes really don't advance the plot.

    Ordering a macchiato and getting a mochachino isn't an opportunity for soul searching and b2b synergy. It's something you text your spouse about with a sad face emoji and move the hell on.

  • I went to a bar the other night and the bartender kept telling me I was “Cut Off”. I had just been cut off driving to the bar. How did he know? I thought about it my whole drive home.

    Well done. 😄

  • Fun story

    I was at church one Sunday and boy did I have an experience. Everyone I ran into would say "Hi"

    "Hi, young man" "Hi, how is your day?" "Hi, do you want a triscuit?"

    Did they know I was stoned? Was it that obvious? Did they know my brand was being blitzed? I was proud, as a stoner, that my message was getting thru.

    I asked the priest "Do you know I'm stoned out of my mind?"

    I was escorted out

    Sometimes you just need to realize, as a stoner, that your brand is obvious.

    Lessons learned:

    The holy water isn't to be gargled

    Truscuits are tasty

    Catholic ushers can be aggressive

    Has anyone had this delusion?

  • What a lesson! He learned that not everything is about his startup. Holy shit! And then he shared that wisdom. We are all sooooo grateful!!

  • What a fun way to find out you're a narcissist 🙄

  • AS A FOUNDER.

    DID I MENTION I AM A FOUNDER?

    I AM A FOUNDER.

    FOUNDER.

    I believe you are a founder, so long as you actually mean the verb founder, rather than the noun.

    I can’t believe I finally found you! Im a loster!

  • Wow...That is one self-centred founder

    I work for a school district. One time I got a call at work. The person said "Hi, this is NAME from BUSINESS. I am meeting with several potential clients in your area next week. Would you have time for an in person chat to see how we could partner with your district? Say, Tuesday at 10?" I said "No, I don't think that would work for me." She paused and asked "Do you already have a vendor?" in a rather sad, defeated tone. I said "I'm not sure. A vendor for what? What does your company do?" Never heard of them. Forgot about them instantly. What kind of sales tactic is that? Why would you assume everyone knows your company?

  • Would you like a crisp of self awareness, sir?

  • No one has said “crisp of tomato” EVER

  • Too bad his company isn't called Doosh. I bet he hears that a lot daily from people he encounters.

  • Did you say Bulky? That’s what I heard, and yes I would like the Bulky steak and Bulky sparkling water.

  • Oh to have the misguided confidence of a mediocre tech bro to actually proudly post this delusion…

  • fun fact: Krispy Creme was name after his startup

  • As a founder who happens to be an American, my new startup Scheisse is making quite a buzz over in Germany. I hear people mention it constantly.

  • Nobody has ever heard of Krisp. Nobody cares about Krisp.

    Only because they haven't increased their marketing budget yet!

    Why have a marketing budget when your brand name is so kompelling it sells itself

    The hallmark of a competent CEO: blowing your fledgling startup’s cash inflow on marketing to people well outside your ICP because you’re not as famous as you think you ought to be.

    Anyone who uses discord has heard of and used krisp

    I use discord and has never heard of krisp. I think it's a stupid company name.

    it's referring to "crisp sound" because they make noise canceling software, I think it's an okay company name.

    Same, but it looks like we found the Krisp guy!

    I've used discord and not heard of krisp, but it seems like a fine company name to me. Crisp sound is a descriptor I've used before.

    I'm constantly on video conferences and have used Krisp for years.  Its a very good and useful product. 

  • Those sentences the waiter said are not even ways the word “crisp” is even used. Enjoy your crisp of hallucination, guy.

  • His convo with the waiter seems made up. Who talks like that?

    Of course it's made up.

    What this is, is ad copy. It's an ad to promote his company's brand by repeating the word "crisp" along with vaguely amusing anecdote so that you remember it.

    If this is his idea of good advertising he really should increase the marketing budget.

  • "This random waiter probably loves our noise canceling tech! Yeah that's it! We are doing really well so I bet he knows us and is a big fan of me personally!" 

  • No waiter has ever, or will ever say the words 'crisp of tomato'. This guy is too dumb to even sell his own half baked nonsense

  • Man, this totally happened. And when he had this epiphany, his coworkers clapped. Passerbys clapped. The whole room clapped. FIFA leadership also clapped and gave him a peace prize.

  • "Not everything is about me...I need to change that immediately!"

  • I’ve had some embarrassing realizations before. I generally keep them to myself, make a mental note about them, and move on with my life. “The world doesn’t revolve around me which is why I’m now drawing attention to myself” is the kind of narcissistic insanity that’s destroying our world.

  • What a genuinely wild delusion.

    You have to first think that the world at large knows about your little brand.

    Then you have to think it's in fact so prevalent that wait staff of all people would know about your AI meeting assistant startup.

    Then you have to think that this waiter loves your brand so much they actually know who you are.

    Then you have to think the way they would signal they know you is by dropping coy little hints about your food instead of just saying hello.

    I swear, these AI tech startup bros have some kind of mental deficiency or terminal narcissism.

  • Sounds like a crisp of bullshit to me.

  • This is how medieval world would have felt when they realized that the universe did not revolve around them.

  • This is so funny. I kinda love him for it.

    Adorable lunatic.

  • Further evidence that those who eschew the arts are more likely to show themselves as embarrassingly uneducated for their age.

  • You could not waterboard this story out of me

  • He’s being roasted to a crisp here.

    🎤

  • To be fair krisp noise cancellation is sick and I use it every day

  • "Here is the crisp of tomato" Who the fuck talks such a way?

  • To be fair Krisp is actually decent software, not sure on it's pricing model, but I have been in meetings that use it and unlike most startups it is actually useful software.

    Do I think it's EVER going to be a house hold name?
    LOL No, it's literally software to make video meetings slightly better.....

    I really hope he doesn't increase his marketing budget because his waiter didn't know what his tech start up was..... you know waiters a profession that famously doesn't really have a need for video meetings.....

    I feel posts like this are a sad attempt at marketing... but if Twitter has taught us anything..... founders and CEOs should be A LOT quieter.....

    The name isnt but the software is, since it's used by Discord for their call noise suppression.

  • Even if you believe this, and he learned “crisp is just a word for bread,” how does it make sense? Enjoy the bread of onion, everyone.

  • I can relate.

    -CEO of Coaka Kola.

  • I named my company "Moron" and my wife took me to her Xmas party and everyone was saying your husband is a fucking moron and I was like OH HAVE YOUR HEARD OF MY COMPANY

  • Guy really thinks that waiters at restaurants are going

    "Oh my god, do you see who that is at table 11?"

    "Is that Arto Minasyan, Co-founder of Krisp.ai and 10Web.io?"

    "..I am pretty sure it is. Let me not so subtley drop non-sensical uses of the word crisp infront of him instead of just asking him"

    "Yes, it would be so embarassing to just ask him if he is Arto Minasyan, Co-founder of Krisp.ai and 10Web.io directly."

  • Wait,

    Did you just say a Muffit of tea?

  • I don't know, this shows a bit more awareness than the others posted here.

    Yeah. He's pretty much admitting to being a delusional dumbass. That's easy more self aware than these posts usually are.

  • Arlo (maybe) learned a lesson… it’s not all about YOU!

  • "Anyone else come up with a really shitty ad like this?"

  • Self-absorbed final boss

  • hahahah!!! relatable to the later part of it sure

  • They couldn't waterboard this out of me

  • Man realizes he's not the main character in everyone else's lives.

  • Crisp is a word for bread? Huh?

  • The only Krisp I care about is Krispy Kreme

  • lmao i only know Krisp AI when I had 15 unauthorized charges from them right after I cancelled my spotify account.

  • “As a founder, …” is one of the worst ways to start a sentence. But that’s true of most identity claims.

  • Local techbro discovers dictionary: More at 11.

  • But this isn’t like the others - he is laughing at himself in this post. He is the butt of the joke he is making.

  • Hahah this reminds me of Ehrlich Bachman’s vision quest in Silicon Valley

  • Things you couldn't pay me to confess

  • Lesson learned:
    -Not everything is about my startup.

    This guy almost experienced a genuine moment of personal growth before he ended with the totally unhinged "hallucinated brand awareness" line.

  • I only know Krisp from Discord because it's the first setting I disable aside from the overlay.

  • Are these people real? Or just AI?

  • at least there’s a (small) degree of self awareness

  • This isn’t satire…?

  • He might be too aware that he’s crazy to be crazy enough for this batshit sub.

  • least narcissistic linkediner

  • A crisp of deez

  • Sometimes I just want to add these people and tell them what a clown they are.

  • Wow, some people really do just life their whole lives with their head shoved up their own asshole, don't they?

  • What a tone deaf post. Even when claiming to realize not everything is about him he still manages to sound as pompous and self-centered as possible.

  • There’s a legit company out there called Slice. Their founder is probably in an asylum by now.

  • Krisp will be toast when the AI bubble bursts lol

  • Honestly, I may think the same when I hear that word that often while having a company called like that. I rarely hear the wird crisp in my life. Not too bad. 😅

  • Yeah this one is fucking insane, I can’t even be sure if this isn’t amazing satire

  • They should study this man's brain for science so we can find out how to prevent one like it from ever existing again. 

  • So it's another speech to text meeting transcription company. Good thing all the major video conferencing software already has all these features so you don't have to suffer through a sales call with this twerp.

  • As a normal person whos not delusional we are trained to inevitably think one thing when we see people like this

    “ wanker”

  • I don't want to be one of those people that casually make statements like "there is no hope." But I can there is no hope. The human race is a failure.

  • Put that marketing budget into a psychiatrist

  • Tl;dr people don't have very extensive vocabularies

  • Oh shit he's actually mental

  • Nah m8 ya just a cunt'

  • If you're ever out of wisdom to spread, but your narcissism demands that you throw life lessons around: Think of the most surface-level kind of advice, and mask it as ¨It's easy to forget the simple things sometimes¨

  • There was one time I thought I heard a brand name, but it wasn't mine.

    I was completely zoned out during an all-team engineering meeting. Bad bout of insomnia, hadn't slept more than a few hours in several nights. The new manager from Bangladesh was outlining new initiatives and priorities. Some weren't fully fleshed out by senior management, so when he encountered one of those bullet points he'd just say "more to come on that" and move on. It was a big room and he was pretty soft spoken, so he was really trying to project so everyone could hear him.

    The thing is, when you're slightly delirious from lack of sleep, someone loudly proclaiming "more to come on that" in a thick Bengali accent sounds a lot like someone half shouting "Mortal Kombat." It certainly snapped me awake, and then I spent the rest of the meeting trying to stifle laughter at my dumb self.

  • Krisp is fucking worthless. Not worth the extra cost