Squarespace’s CMO cold-called firms in the phone book to land her first role—and says Gen Z must be ‘willing to do anything’ to get a job

Squarespace CMO Kinjil Mathur climbed the ranks of Conde Nast, Saks Fifth Avenue and Foursquare to the C-suite at Squarespace. 

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@owner

"CEOs should be willing to impale themselves on spikes, electrocute themselves, throw themselves into the path of a train, throw themselves off an overpass during rush hour, climb into a woodchipper, die from a freak gardening accident, drink a gallon of bleach - willing to do anything."

@owner if you're working long hours for free, you're not really a "jobseeker" since that's not really a "job"

@owner

G:

All that’s missing is “bosses are allowed to beat or kill you” and she’s describing slavery.

@CrankshaftConstellation

Most of history slaves had more rights than that.

USA was just expectional fringe case on slavery.

(And because it needs to be said: everything that's even close to slavery is morally and ethically bankrupt. I'm mentioning this because popculture re: "slave culture in USA" actually lowers the expectations of moral rights even after the fact.)

@owner I hear the sound… of many dropped sponsorships.
@TransitBiker @owner I listen to lots of podcasts and watch lots of science and educational YouTube channels. Loads of them are sponsored by Squarespace. Going to be interesting to see if that starts to change over the next few weeks.
@beecycling @owner yep. Content creators are more empowered than ever to drop sponsors with how many have popped up & the rise of patreon etc.

@owner

Millenials making it into the C-suite:

You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain

@owner I always wonder is someone born this awful or do they have to put in effort?

@WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud @owner

It's effort.

Anyone born this awful would frighten their mother into thinking they birthed the Antichrist.

@owner The new(old) slavery!
@owner ok then, another corporate asshole
@owner well that’s a big red flag

@owner

"You should give away work for free while your parents support you. This is the path to success." Says the chief marketing officer of a company I've never heard of.

@johntimaeus @owner IMO, they're best-known for buying Google Domains.

Like...the whole business unit. 😑

@owner My domains that used to be managed by Google have now been moved to squarespace. Guess I'd better find another place to hold them. Anybody have suggestions?
As supervillains go, I don't need this degree of competition
@owner Once my remaining Google Domain migrated to Squarespace, it took a couple weeks for things to settle down before I could login and transfer it out. I'd already moved the others to Namecheap. I was just expecting this one to be more easily accessible through Google's Cloud Services. Nope. Can't programmatically update the domain any more from terraform. So it's history.
@owner looking forward to video content creators boycotting them - they're basically the main sponsor for so many of them on youtube.
@owner damn I wonder how much the CMO works
@owner Kind of horseshit that I expect from most if not all traded companies.
@owner Link to the original article please.
Squarespace’s CMO cold-called firms in the phone book to land her first role—and says Gen Z must be ‘willing to do anything’ to get a job

Squarespace CMO Kinjil Mathur climbed the ranks of Conde Nast, Saks Fifth Avenue and Foursquare to the C-suite at Squarespace. 

Fortune

@owner web.archive has
"Squarespace’s CMO cold-called firms in the phone book to land her first role—and says Gen Z must be ‘willing to do anything’ to get a job" from the 20th,

"Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO" from the 21st

and

"Gen Z job seekers should be ‘willing to do anything’—any hours, any pay, any type of job, says Squarespace CMO" from the 22nd.

They changed it twice.

Steve Jobs' former intern on why college grads should pay $50,000 to work with the best people

Steve Jobs former intern suggests that college grads identify to best people to work for and "then pay them $50,000."

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@robinadams It seems like a joke, but many companies do ISAs which are effectively pay to work programs.
@owner "I don't understand, we fired our customers and replaced them with AI bots and lost any ability to make revenue and now our employees are not willing to pay us to work? The young people of today, I tells ya..." /s

@owner Would you be willing to add a link to the original article please?

https://fortune.com/2024/07/20/squarespaces-cmo-cold-called-yellow-page-firms-land-jobs/

Squarespace’s CMO cold-called firms in the phone book to land her first role—and says Gen Z must be ‘willing to do anything’ to get a job

Squarespace CMO Kinjil Mathur climbed the ranks of Conde Nast, Saks Fifth Avenue and Foursquare to the C-suite at Squarespace. 

Fortune
@davidjamesweir NP, added, you're the second one requesting it, so will be useful for future users. Thanks!
@owner good thing screenshots are forever, looks like they've since changed the headline 🤦
@severedaffect I don't even like boosting content that's behind a paywall and that's been heavily revised, but I figured people would want to know.
@owner same, and I definitely appreciate it

@owner

This reminds me, I need to transfer my domains away from them.

@owner She's wrong for not trying to change the system, but unfortunately she's not wrong in describing the system as it exists today. The 14-hour days and the unpaid internships are real.

@owner
for free?

Typical entitled management class, always pushing for more, always demanding something for nothing.

If it's unpaid then how is it even a job?

@owner Let me get my guilliotine out...
@owner really curious how much money her parents provided so that she could "work for free" 🙄

@owner Somewhere between the grindset mindset and boomer bootstrapping, there's this opinion. If you can afford to work for nothing then sure, go do your cold-calling for a resume filling role but the hustling life isn't for most.

Link to the article: https://fortune.com/2024/07/20/squarespaces-cmo-cold-called-yellow-page-firms-land-jobs/

Squarespace’s CMO cold-called firms in the phone book to land her first role—and says Gen Z must be ‘willing to do anything’ to get a job

Squarespace CMO Kinjil Mathur climbed the ranks of Conde Nast, Saks Fifth Avenue and Foursquare to the C-suite at Squarespace. 

Fortune
@owner Amazing how she was able to survive by eating fresh air and drinking her own sweat for all that time.
@owner lol, yeah sure. Get lost lady. Anybody saying things like this should have taken all their money way and forced todo what ever insanity they suggest for a year. Everbody who works, should be payed a living wage. Interns, cleaning personelle, nurses, PHD students, waiters. No exceptions. Work is work. No buts. Best thing about it is, that even fat cats like her would benefit from more average spending power.

@owner

Out of gratitude for their hardworking employees, without which they would be nothing, all corporate executives should be willing to "do anything", forgo executive salaries and benefits, and not make any more than the lowest paid wage worker at their companies.

*guillotine emoji*

@owner Is that "voluntary servitude?" It can't be wage theft if there's no pretense that there is a wage at all. Hmmm ... can some labor lawyer advise me on what's going on here? 😡
Former Squarespace employee alleges 'overt' racism | TechCrunch

Accounts of racism, sexism and discrimination are unfortunately way too common in the tech industry. The latest comes from Amélie Lamont, a black woman and former employee at website creation company Squarespace, who was fired after slapping a co-worker at a bar. Lamont was a customer care supervisor at Squarespace from September 2011 through February 2014. Squarespace, founded in 2004, has raised $78.5 million in funding from investors like Accel Partners, Index Ventures and General Atlantic.

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