Mastodawn

I missed working during the dot com boom, but I heard some crazy stories from older coworkers. Like showing up at 10am hungover, playing video games until the CEO came in around noon coked out of his gourd, then hitting up the strip club at 4 on the company dime.

Then one day they get there and the CEO says “sorry guys, money ran out, go home.”

I can’t imagine what it’s like at these AI startups with orders of magnitude more money to burn.

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gravitas_deficiency 1d ago

My dad worked during the heyday of the .com era - he once had a CFO who would just go on benders for like 4-5 days, wake up in some foreign country surrounded by hookers and blow (like, very literally, not as a futurama reference), then just fly back and act like nothing happened.

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ChickenLadyLovesLife

We had a CTO who was a massive coke fiend as well. Dumb as dirt, only had his position because he was married to the daughter of the company’s founder. We once had a client who had been with us for ten years visit and this CTO wandered into a meeting with them and babbled for 45 minutes and then suddenly said “so … does it sound like you guys would like to do business with us?”

He eventually divorced the daughter, who was friends with many of the employees and aired her dirty laundry on Facebook so we all got to see it. Apparently her nickname for him was “ol’ three inches two minutes”.