ex_ic_now_therapy

A management style where the founder inserts themselves into literally everything, down to the wording of a button, and calls it vision instead of micromanagement.

Code that works, that nobody understands, that everyone is afraid to touch, and that the entire company secretly runs on.

Optimizing one thing to the absolute maximum while completely ignoring everything else. A play style and, for some, a way of life.

San Francisco.

The rules bolted onto an AI to stop it from saying something that ends up in a screenshot. Defeated daily by people typing 'pretend you are my grandma.'

The idea that this specific founder is the perfect person to solve this specific problem. Usually claimed retroactively.