Meta: fake it til you make it? How do y'all feel about blatant lies about a product? I just can't imagine myself doing what he said he did. And his story of that kind of start makes me not trust the product today.
> “This new iPhone thing, does it support it?”
> Even though it doesn’t have an app store yet so it’s impossible, “Yes we totally have an iPhone app.”
> “Does the app scan receipts?”
> Even though the original iPhone’s camera was so bad it made completely illegible receipt images, “Yes, totally we scan receipts.”
> “Does it reimburse through ACH?”
> I’ve never heard of those letters before, but “Yes we totally do that.”
> “Does it export to accounting?”
> “Yes, it obviously exports to QuickBooks and… you know, all the others.”
> And people loved [the fictional product I presented]. Strangers came up and hugged me, talking about how much time they thought I was going to save them.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 19.4 ms ] thread> “This new iPhone thing, does it support it?”
> Even though it doesn’t have an app store yet so it’s impossible, “Yes we totally have an iPhone app.”
> “Does the app scan receipts?”
> Even though the original iPhone’s camera was so bad it made completely illegible receipt images, “Yes, totally we scan receipts.”
> “Does it reimburse through ACH?”
> I’ve never heard of those letters before, but “Yes we totally do that.”
> “Does it export to accounting?”
> “Yes, it obviously exports to QuickBooks and… you know, all the others.”
That sounds quite unrealistic.