r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Mar 29 '26

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u/PM_me_ur_digressions Audrey Hepburn Mar 29 '26

I have now had my 33rd first date where the guy mentions wanting to quit his job to create his own start up.

He has worked for the Navy as a materials engineer since graduating a decade ago. He wants to create an urban farming start up, says getting “seed money for the seeds” is the “easy part.”

He doesn’t want to go work for an extant urban farming outfit because why do that when he can “be his own boss” and “do his own thing”

I have never lived on the West Coast. The cities these dates have happened to me in are Dallas, Miami, Boston, Chicago, and DC, none of which (to my knowledge) are particularly start-up heavy. No one else around me seems to have this problem. None of my friend groups have ever been startup/tech bro heavy. I have met these guys through work, friends’ parties, at bars, on hinge, at Church, at rec league dodgeball, at the dog park, so I don’t think it’s location dependent.

Twice is a coincidence, three times a pattern. 33 times is concerning.

How do I make myself less attractive to start up bros?

How do I attract non-start-up bros?

Why the fuck is this happening?

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u/marky6045 George Soros Mar 29 '26

33 first dates seems like a lot

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u/Tre-Fyra-Tre Victim of Flair Theft Mar 29 '26

How do I make myself less attractive to start up bros?

Stop posting in the DT

How do I attract non-start-up bros?

Stop posting in the DT

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u/Coolioho Mar 29 '26

Miami and Boston are both very start up heavy but also very start up coded. Maybe a correlation between you not realizing that and your experience

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u/TrappedInASkinnerBox John Rawls Mar 29 '26

Also lol at this guy in particular wanting to do an urban farming startup

How is that not just a bougie gardening store?

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u/TrappedInASkinnerBox John Rawls Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

Oh my God I think I remember you posting about this problem before, it's still happening!?

At this point just put it in your profile that you don't want anyone interested in startups

Maybe dudes don't read profiles so that might not work

And that doesn't help with the guys you meet in person

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u/Peripheral-Entity578 Iron Front Mar 29 '26

I'm not a startup bro

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