Some startups treat LinkedIn the way a teenager treats a Pinterest board: anything visible online is available for immediate use, provided nobody asks enough questions. Any questions?

A professional headshot becomes company décor, an old résumé becomes an advisory biography, and a person who attended a few interviews gets promoted into a “Senior Advisor” before anyone has bothered to offer them a job or pay. Why waste time building an actual team when the internet is full of people with faces and career histories just sitting there?

This is startup confidence at its purest. A founder meets someone three times, cannot agree to pay them, and then quietly adds them to the sales deck anyway, because compensation is merely a technical detail and consent is one of those outdated concepts that slows innovation. The next logical move is putting Beyoncé on the investor slide and describing her as “informally aligned with the brand.”