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Investor , former GitHub CEO , and all - around Tech Guy ™ Nat Friedman has posted a strangely enticing offer on X.
Hispostreads , “ Need unpaid worker to come to my office staff in Palo Alto today to construct a 5000 objet d’art Lego set . Will provide pizza pie . Have to signal NDA . Please DM . ”
Thanks to the fact-finding coverage of my intrepid colleague Kyle , we know that he is n’t kidding .
Lego set and pizza pie hold the hope of a bang-up Friday night if I ’m being honest , but the NDA is what take me .
I ’m no legal expert . But I can state , with some stage of confidence , you should n’t go around sign NDAs willy - nilly . And yet , if I lived in Palo Alto , I would show up to build this Lego set and sign that NDA , no inquiry asked — the lure of detect a secret Silicon Valley Lego craze is too laborious to resist .
It ’s already a little strange to be a well - known investor making this offer in public . He has to sleep with that he ’s lead to get pullulate with Stanford soph who want to pitch their startup melodic theme , right ? But 5,000 - piece Lego sets are no put-on , and if you have 215,000 followers , why not get some help with an restrain architectural challenge ?
That is to say , I can get past the whole “ come do Legos with me ” thing .
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Wealthy technical school folks merit to have playfulness too ! But the NDA part ruined me and now I have to live on the rest of my life know that something unearthly is going on at this meeting of the minds — something so weird that Friedman would mention the NDA from the get - go . He could ’ve played it cool and gossip with potential builder before get them know that they have to ratify an NDA . But he laid it all out there .
What could be so close about this Lego dark ? Does Friedman have access to some top - underground Lego sets that you could only acquire through year - long relationships with the company , like a Birkin bag for nerds ?
Or does he just want to verify that no one who present up is kick the bucket to go rogue and tell everyone where his agency is ? I know that some celebrities ask the the great unwashed they fall out with to sign NDAs , but listen : GitHub is cool and all , but I do n’t remember Nat Friedman is on the same grade of renown as Timothée Chalamet .
Anyway , if anyone in Palo Alto likes Legos and is cool with check an NDA to aid in the lowest - stakes news media you ’ve ever think , hit me up .
