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May 8, 2023

Tech 'broetry' is out of control and needs to be stopped

Wishy-washy self-help guff is running wild in startup circles — all the Linkedin haikus have me jaded

Éanna Kelly

2 min read

Startup folk have brought us many wonderful things: Airbnb, maps on our phones and — best of them all — the Meme Generator app. 

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Éanna Kelly

Éanna Kelly is a contributing editor at Sifted, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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