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[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 35 points 1 month ago (13 children)

I’ll bet $50 this “CEO” has very few “employees.” Maybe just one. Which makes the screenshot message even sadder.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

OK yeah. He is a recent grad from Dartmouth and his company markets exclusively to college students and boasts $500,000 in sales.

This might sound like a lot but it’s not enough to have many employees. He’s essentially a self-employed ~~kid~~ young man acting as the sole managing member of a disregarded entity and his “Pakistani employee” is likely a 1099 gig-worker, not a w2 employee.

So, big grain of salt here. It’s a ~~kid~~ young man cosplaying as a big-shot CEO on social media. Maybe don’t luigi this one until he’s had the chance to actually be a colossal piece of shit.

Edit: trying to learn not to call young adults kids, even when they totally look or act like one

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

likely a 1099 gig-worker, not a w2 employee

I'm not familiar, but those both sound like visas for foreign workers? From the original post, I don't think the developer is living in a western country. I think it's outsourced to a Pakistani living in Pakistan.

[–] offspec@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Those are just tax code for employee/self employed contractor

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