Tech Vs. Fashion: The Unglamorous Side of a Startup

10 things this fashion girl wasn’t warned about when I signed up for a startup:

1. Does this startup make me look old? Millennials are from Mars, Gen-X are from Venus!

2. What? I have to share my office with the CEO and the intern? There is barely enough room for all my shoes under my desk!

3. We are ordering on Seamless again? No more lunch dates at the latest terraces with all my fashion husbands (who appreciate my new Gianvito Rossi shoes much more than the programmers).

4. No one ever noticed my new zodiac-themed Valentino bag, but yet they talked all morning about the programmer’s new t-shirt that says, “No I won’t fix your computer”.

5. You stare at your Mac all day and end up with the one accessory you didn’t want: reading glasses.

6. You’ll have to think twice before wearing that off-the-shoulder Isabel Marant white dress and your gladiator sandals to an 8am Venture Capitalist breakfast.

7. Steakhouses have become the new Pastis! (What? When did Pastis close?)

8. Your vocabulary will lose its pizzazz and your once daily words such as curated, edited, marvelous have become responsive, user experience, solution.

9. Clear your cache is the new Cachet!

10. Colleagues are constantly underestimating you because you came from a supposedly superficial industry (but you are well-educated, hard-working, cultured, fearless and you’ll defy expectations every time! ;)

Bisous AKA XO, Kareen