a CEO is facing backlash, used company account to make insulting remarks to young woman influencer

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

A CEO is facing backlash after an influencer said he used his company's Instagram account to attack her

Sudan said she'd posted a video of her and her dad cooking together and seen a comment that she felt was unwarranted.
"Must be a tough life living life on easy mode," it said.

Not knowing if it was a joke, Sudan replied, saying she was lucky she had parents who made her life possible.

"Ya we get it," another comment shot back. "You have no skills and family money."

Sudan was shocked because the comments came from the official company Instagram page for the website ParchmentPaper.com.

She then assumed it had been hacked, so she emailed the company's CEO, Brandon Howard, to let him know.

"I'm like hey, I think somebody's on your business account leaving cyber-bullying comments," she said. "And then I get an email from the CEO."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/a-ceo-is-facing-backlash-after-an-influencer-said-he-used-his-company-s-instagram-account-to-attack-her/ar-BB1hOg0k

According to Sudan, Howard responded to her email, but not in the way she expected. He doubled down.

He said he didn't consider stating "factual information" as cyberbullying, and if Sudan was offended, she should "call the cyberbullying police", Sunday said.

"Delete the comment and move on. Cheers."

The email, which was seen by Business Insider, ended with Howard's signature and phone number.

"Enjoy frolicking through life and leave the rest up to us adults who create actual economic value without a trust fund," he wrote, according to Sudan.

https://www.businessinsider.com/paper-company-ceo-backlash-rude-comments-on-influencer-instagram-sudan-2024-2

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1. Response to backlash from CEO Brandon Howard

Howard denied that his comments were abusive or aggressive, and said they weren’t enough to justify receiving thousands of phone calls, emails, texts, spam signups, and death threats.

“I’ve already apologized for the original comment but it just seems like it’s a huge joke for these ‘influencers” who have no idea what it’s like to actually create economic value yet throw a huge negative media storm to make somebody elses’ life worse,” he added.

“Never would I set out to negatively impact the ability for somebody else to feed their family, pay bills or damage something they have worked years and years towards not to mention the several hundred thousand dollars being risked.”

https://moneynewsglobal.com/money/paper-company-ceo-facing-backlash-left-rude-comments-on-an-influencers-instagram/

[Dorian Gray]

13. This man has

eaten a lifetime supply of SOUR GRAPES!

lol

What a weird and stupid thing to do with an official business account.

[Renew Deal]

2. Brandon Howard apparently has lost it.

I don't know why he feels the need to trash people. And his comments about "economic value" demonstrate his ignorance about the economy and creating value.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. all she was doing was cooking with her father. No politics or anything to set anyone off

he must be a monster of a boss

[Renew Deal]

8. I agree

He's got to be a nightmare, ranting about "value." It's clueless

[haele]

3. Why do people think they have to engage with posts they just don't like...

If it's not dangerous or doesn't directly affect them or their families, communities, business, why does it offend them so much they have to lose their minds and post bs that they know isn't polite.

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Haele

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

5. I love the comments he's getting "who hurt you?"

[ismnotwasm]

6. What an asshole.

Anyway, I can’t get on that companies website for some reason, I keep getting an error message. I just wanted to see what “actual economic value” it offers

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7. they shut website down... was inundated with backlash. millions watched her video about the CEO

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Very Minimal

ThomasNet shows them at less than a million dollars of revenue. I've played golf courses around here that have over a million in revenue!
A business titan this guy is not.

[usonian]

9. Nasty habit of some CEO's.

https://sfist.com/2024/01/29/local-tech-ceo-and-mega-donor-garry-tan-tweets-that-some-sf-supervisors-should-die-slow-in-late-night-rant/

Local Tech CEO and Political Donor Garry Tan Tweets That Some SF Supervisors Should ‘Die Slow’ In Late-Night Rant

A seemingly drunken and now-deleted tweetstorm from Y Combinator CEO and political donor Garry Tan called on most of the SF Board of Supervisors to “Die slow motherf***ers,” which may be awkward for one supervisor candidate whose company funding is linked to Tan.

If you’re like many San Franciscans on Twitter, there’s a good chance you are blocked by highly vocal local tech CEO Garry Tan. So you may not have seen a series of eyebrow-raising (and seemingly drunken?) tweets Tan posted late Friday night and early Saturday morning. Tan is best known for being the CEO of the VC firm Y Combinator, but has also donated well over $100,000 toward moderate causes in the last couple years, and serves as a board member of the very active tech-funded political group Grow SF.


But as Mission Local reports, Tan appeared to engage in a “die slow motherfucker” rant on Twitter in the wee hours Saturday morning, clearly directed at seven of the 11 members of the SF Board of Supervisors. The thread has since been deleted.

“Fuck Chan, Peskin, Preston, Walton, Melgar, Ronen, Safai, Chan as a label and motherfucking crew,” Tan posted to his 400,000+ Twitter followers at 12:25 a.m. Saturday morning. “Die slow motherfuckers.”

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11. whoa! another asshole CEO

[usonian]

12. Yup, a more than implied death threat against officials.

Drunkenness is no excuse. Creepy to the max.
Elon is on some drugs discussed elsewhere. None of my business except for the fascist toxicity of his site and the danger of his cars falling apart (so roofs fly off … ) and bad habits that drivers tend to have.

No rockets have fallen nearby me.

[yardwork]

10. Not very bright.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. He Did This On The Official Corporate Account?

What a dope. That would be a no-no if the lowest level temp receptionist did this.
That receptionist would be fired so fast it would seem it hadn't happened yet.
This guy needs to be launched.
But, from what I saw on ThomasNet, this is a tiny company. ThomasNet shows them at less than $1 million revenue.
This guy isn't really a CEO. He's a plant manager.