**BREAKING: Local Founder Accidentally Solves Startup’s Biggest Problem by Tweeting “Who Wants to Be CEO?”**

BREAKING: Local Founder Accidentally Solves Startup’s Biggest Problem by Tweeting “Who Wants to Be CEO?”

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – In a move that has the venture capital world simultaneously applauding and weeping, startup founder and serial over-sharer, Alex Chen, has accidentally disrupted the entire founder-to-CEO pipeline by simply firing off a tweet while half-asleep.

At 3:17 AM, Chen tweeted: “ngl, being a founder is just being a janitor with a pitch deck. who wants to be CEO? first comment gets the title + my equity.”

Within 13 minutes, the thread was flooded with replies ranging from a cat account claiming “CEO of napping” to a LinkedIn influencer demanding “an equity package and a parking spot.” However, one response—from a 22-year-old design intern named Sam—simply read: “I’ll do it for the health insurance.”

Meme historians are already calling this the “Soft Launch of the Late-Stage Founder.” According to experts, Chen has inadvertently stumbled upon the ultimate ironic startup pivot: while everyone is busy “hustling” and “grinding,” the real trick to scaling a company is apparently outsourcing the existential dread to the comments section.

“This is the most honest version of ‘founder-market fit’ we’ve ever seen,” said Dr. Karen Meme, professor of Digital Anthropology at Stanford. “He brought the ‘burnout economy’ into the light. It’s ironic because we’ve spent a decade idolizing founders as gods, only for one to admit that the job is basically just a glorified customer service rep with a sense of entitlement and a broken coffee machine.”

VCs are reportedly scrambling to update their pitch decks to include “TikTok-native CEO transition models.” Meanwhile, Sam’s first act as the new CEO was to post an apology note and then change the company Slack to