don't think this went the way she imagined

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12:35a, 3/14/23
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Just another blue collar worker trying to get by with her business that charges $6000 per year to help plan little Johnny's birthday party

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1:55a, 3/14/23
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It's a personal assistant service that helps you track to do lists and plan things.

I imagine anyone with enough extra income to afford this is capable of planning things themselves.

But at its core it's a personal assistant for people who work a lot or are lazy.

Pay some assistant to track your todos, plan vacations and parties and do other stuff for you.

Looks like the marketing is targeted at moms. All of the pictures on the website feature kids and women.
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2:00a, 3/14/23
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She was a consultant now building a business doing consulting for wealthy moms on vacation and party planning, charging thousands.

Kind of funny when you think about. Like a South Park side plot.

"Strongsuit is a chief of staff for your home."

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7:57a, 3/14/23
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In reply to Bocephus • 8:17a, 3/14/23
What's your point? She found a market and exploited it
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8:45a, 3/14/23
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8:53a, 3/14/23
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She looks exactly like the way I imagined the CEO of Strongsuit to look…….
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8:54a, 3/14/23
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The point, missed by the first few posters, is that she posed as:

A mother of 4 living in Ohio
Driving a Honda Odessey
Whose husband is working in manufacturing just so their family can survive while she builds her own business

Please feel bad for us because we just a regular American family trying to live the American dream and big bad SIVB collapsed and now we have no money to support our small business. We need a bailout from big daddy government so our little dream can stay alive

She tried to typecast herself to make you feel bad for her and her situation, when she greatly exaggerated the facts. She formally worked at McKinsey with plenty of money in the bank and her husband is a white collar worker, not blue collar in manufacturing. This is an upper 10%, if not higher, family that didn't need to play the "woe is me" card on social media. Yes it would have hurt them if the business did, in fact, collapse, but in the end they would have been just fine compared to middle class Americans they tried to play themselves off to be.
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In reply to Ranger222 • 8:59a, 3/14/23
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9:06a, 3/14/23
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oops. shes losing me

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In reply to txaggieacct85 • 9:15a, 3/14/23
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txaggieacct85 said:


If you were making $230K a year and your spouse was making more as an executive, would you go on social media and portray yourself as a blue collar family who would not make ends meet without a bailout and use your story as an example of how SVB is not a bank of elites? That is what she did
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In reply to not hedge • 9:17a, 3/14/23
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not hedge said:
What's your point? She found a market and exploited it


Did you read her 23 tweets?
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In reply to Bocephus • 9:24a, 3/14/23
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To be fair, the money is also used to pay her employees.

What's crazy to me is that she needed to raise Venture Capital to start this business. It looks like a business you could bootstrap with a website and social media. I don't see what takes millions of dollars to operate and spend on before having any customers.

I've seen lots of boot strapped businesses like this. She's an out of touch consultant former career woman who is building the service she wishes she had, the ability outsource family responsibilities so she can be career focused.

Best tweet I saw in the replies:

"Personal assistant to plan parties and vacations, $6000. Having the time to do it myself, priceless"
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In reply to bmks270 • 9:26a, 3/14/23
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bmks270 said:
To be fair, the money is also used to pay her employees.

What's crazy to me is that she needed to raise Venture Capital to start this business. It looks like a business you could bootstrap with a website and social media. I don't see what takes millions of dollars to operate and spend on before having any customers.

I've seen lots of boot strapped businesses like this. She's an out of touch consultant former career woman who is building the service she wishes she had, the ability outsource family responsibilities so she can be career focused.

Best tweet I saw in the replies:

"Personal assistant to plan parties and vacations, $6000. Having the time to do it myself, priceless"


$3 million to pay 15 employees in Ohio does seem excessive. I don't care about her business, just that she portrayed herself and family as blue collar when she's anything but.
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11:03a, 3/14/23
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Well, she got 22K likes and her money back so I would say it went the way she imagined.
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In reply to bmks270 • 11:06a, 3/14/23
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bmks270 said:
She was a consultant now building a business doing consulting for wealthy moms on vacation and party planning, charging thousands.

Kind of funny when you think about. Like a South Park side plot.

"Strongsuit is a chief of staff for your home."

Uptalkers. Would not hire.
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11:38a, 3/14/23
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But was the funding part of the Silicon Valley Bank?
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In reply to Ag CPA • 1:18p, 3/14/23
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Ag CPA said:
Well, she got 22K likes and her money back so I would say it went the way she imagined.


She already had her money back. Now hundreds of thousands of potential customers have a negative view of her and her company.
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In reply to Bocephus • 1:56p, 3/14/23
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Bocephus said:
Ag CPA said:
Well, she got 22K likes and her money back so I would say it went the way she imagined.


She already had her money back. Now hundreds of thousands of potential customers have a negative view of her and her company.


I'm guessing nobody that is bothered by this was a potential customer to begin with....
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2:01p, 3/14/23
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We also kept her going with a PPP loan and forgiveness.
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In reply to The Collective • 2:06p, 3/14/23
Yep and all the other businesses that "needed" them
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3:38p, 3/14/23
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3:38p, 3/14/23
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CpyCsYXPRuC/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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In reply to Bocephus • 5:04p, 3/14/23
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Bocephus said:
Ag CPA said:
Well, she got 22K likes and her money back so I would say it went the way she imagined.


She already had her money back. Now hundreds of thousands of potential customers have a negative view of her and her company.
Sorry, you are right, this tweet clogged my Twitter "for you" feed over the weekend and I never took the time to read the 20+ tweets that followed.

Between this, Bill Ackman's War and Peace tweets and the other nonsense that come through over the past five days I'm about to pull the plug, at least on the fin stuff.
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In reply to Bocephus • 5:05p, 3/14/23
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In reply to Bocephus • 6:49p, 3/14/23
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Bocephus said:
Ag CPA said:
Well, she got 22K likes and her money back so I would say it went the way she imagined.


She already had her money back. Now hundreds of thousands of potential customers have a negative view of her and her company.
Correction she got free advertising

No publicity is bad publicity

Put anyone paying $6k to plan Jr's bday party is going to be a nightmare to work with
The world needs mean tweets

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6:51a, 3/15/23
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While not blue collar, she is not rich either. Just a middle class small business in trouble. Happens everyday.
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8:38a, 3/15/23
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If her business is clearing near her previous job- her family is making 500k+ a year. That is not "middle class."
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In reply to JW • 9:30a, 3/15/23
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JW said:
While not blue collar, she is not rich either. Just a middle class small business in trouble. Happens everyday.


Do you think a person making $230,000 per year is middle class?
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In reply to Bocephus • 10:12a, 3/15/23
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With inflation as it's been, $230k a year isn't middle class because the middle is crumbling and it isn't upper, because there's a ton of high net folks making $500k or more a year. It's an albatross flying in a lonely land.
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In reply to jagvocate • 11:43a, 3/15/23
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jagvocate said:
With inflation as it's been, $230k a year isn't middle class because the middle is crumbling and it isn't upper, because there's a ton of high net folks making $500k or more a year. It's an albatross flying in a lonely land.


$230K puts you well within the top 10 percent of all wage earners in the United States. That is not middle class unless you are talking to Obama
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In reply to bmks270 • 11:48a, 3/15/23
bmks270 said:
To be fair, the money is also used to pay her employees.

What's crazy to me is that she needed to raise Venture Capital to start this business. It looks like a business you could bootstrap with a website and social media. I don't see what takes millions of dollars to operate and spend on before having any customers.

I've seen lots of boot strapped businesses like this. She's an out of touch consultant former career woman who is building the service she wishes she had, the ability outsource family responsibilities so she can be career focused.

Best tweet I saw in the replies:

"Personal assistant to plan parties and vacations, $6000. Having the time to do it myself, priceless"
They don't need VC, that's the scam. Get VC money, spend lavishly as you never would with your own cash, pay yourself a fat salary and perks, close up shop after the money runs out and do it again.
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In reply to Bocephus • 1:52p, 3/15/23
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Bocephus said:
jagvocate said:
With inflation as it's been, $230k a year isn't middle class because the middle is crumbling and it isn't upper, because there's a ton of high net folks making $500k or more a year. It's an albatross flying in a lonely land.


$230K puts you well within the top 10 percent of all wage earners in the United States. That is not middle class unless you are talking to Obama
And that's crazy to think about to me considering the amount of real estate deals that have been done over the past 3 years and the cash thrown around. Where are so many people getting all of this money if $200k is top 10% in wage earners?
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In reply to txaggie_08 • 3:40p, 3/15/23
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txaggie_08 said:
Bocephus said:
jagvocate said:
With inflation as it's been, $230k a year isn't middle class because the middle is crumbling and it isn't upper, because there's a ton of high net folks making $500k or more a year. It's an albatross flying in a lonely land.


$230K puts you well within the top 10 percent of all wage earners in the United States. That is not middle class unless you are talking to Obama
And that's crazy to think about to me considering the amount of real estate deals that have been done over the past 3 years and the cash thrown around. Where are so many people getting all of this money if $200k is top 10% in wage earners?


Average of top 10 percent wage earners is $173K. Average of top 5 percent is ~$240K. So if you're making $230,000 per year, you're likely in the top 5 percent.

To answer your question, they're borrowing it and only paying 2 percent on it.
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In reply to Bocephus • 3:51p, 3/15/23
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Bocephus said:
txaggie_08 said:
Bocephus said:
jagvocate said:
With inflation as it's been, $230k a year isn't middle class because the middle is crumbling and it isn't upper, because there's a ton of high net folks making $500k or more a year. It's an albatross flying in a lonely land.


$230K puts you well within the top 10 percent of all wage earners in the United States. That is not middle class unless you are talking to Obama
And that's crazy to think about to me considering the amount of real estate deals that have been done over the past 3 years and the cash thrown around. Where are so many people getting all of this money if $200k is top 10% in wage earners?


Average of top 10 percent wage earners is $173K. Average of top 5 percent is ~$240K. So if you're making $230,000 per year, you're likely in the top 5 percent.

To answer your question, they're borrowing it and only paying 2 percent on it.
FWIW, I think a confusing part of these statistics is that citations often interchange Household Income vs Individual Income.

At $230k, this lady is in the 96th percentile for individual income (Top 4%).
At $500k, this family is in the 98th percentile for household income (Top 2%, nearly 1%).
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