The more you know...

Our fearless leader recently detailed his extensive resume in a Storque post last week:

"(Maria's) arrival also marks a change in my own role at Etsy. I am 28 years old. Before Etsy, I worked many jobs: cashier at a Marshalls department store, stock boy at a camera shop, freelance carpenter, lowest rung on the ladder at a demolition company, minimum wage floor help at the Strand book store (saving up to go back to college), amanuensis for an eighty-year-old philosopher from Vienna.

All of these jobs prepared me for being an entrepreneur and starting a company. "

Uhm, it does? Sounds to me like it prepares you to be a car wash attendant or professional ass-based drug mule. Amanuensis? Couldn't he just say he worked as a personal assistant to a eccentric European? How about an working like Elaine for an existential Mr Pitt? (I can totally see him being flustered by buying socks.)

But wait there is more goodness to be had on other sites:

"Kalin explains his background: he flunked high school, went to live with an uncle and finally moved to New York. Once he was there, he got an education by stealing people's IDs and going to their classes..." [link]

"Wanted to remain unemployed and start a company. Started six, including carpentry. Did one year of art school in Boston, but had never used computers much." [link]

The saddest part is you'd think in those hours of stolen university courses he'd have at least tried out one goddamn Ethics class.

Most appalling is that he actually seems to be proud of his past as a professional slacker, thief, and liar. Yet he honestly seems stupefied when more and more of us don't trust anything that comes from his mouth. What nerve we have to not take him at his word.

I'm sure he thinks it looks ballsy, daring and resourceful to disclose this seedy past so freely; to me it smells for all world like a classic example of a conman. He seems to have never developed to skill to think more than 20 minutes ahead, let alone the long term and that is becoming more than clear in Etsy's present problems with user's wising up that they deserve to be treated better than being slapped around by this abusive partner.

For a man who "never used computers much" he sure found the right market arena. A million women to sell his now finely polished lines of bullshit and reforge himself as a full fledged indie cult leader complete with vestal cupcake eating virgins washing his feet with their hair.