Groove•62K followers   1w       My kid gave a presentation about me at school last week.
His teacher sent me the transcript.
He described my SaaS founder job from his POV. I still haven't recovered: "My dad works on the computer in his underwear." That was the opening line... "He talks to himself a lot. Sometimes he yells at something called Stripe." The teacher noted she asked what Stripe was. They said: "It's the thing that makes dad happy or sad. Mostly sad." Then came the career explanation: "He sells invisible things to people he never meets.
They pay him every month but sometimes they stop
and then he eats cereal for dinner." The teacher asked if I had coworkers. "He has a friend named Slack who talks to him all day.
And a guy named Pavel who lives in the computer.
Pavel fixed something once and dad almost cried." The class asked what my company does. "It helps other companies do things better.
I don't know what things because dad tried to explain but I fell asleep." The grand finale: "One time dad made ten thousand dollars in one day
and bought mommy flowers. Then someone canceled and he returned the flowers." The teacher's note at the bottom said: "Your child is very creative. We'd love to have you visit for career day." I'm not going, because if my kid already roasted me this hard from memory, there's no surviving a live demo. I can't explain B2B SaaS to adults, let alone kids. My wife asked why I was staring at the transcript.
I told her I was doing competitive analysis, basically. TLDR: My kid told thirty children that dad's mood depends on my Stripe dashboard.  To view or add a comment, sign in