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 Creep on customers. Sometimes, if you're a noob in a field, you gotta flex some mad unconventional moves to attract customers, ya know? If that field is protection from cybercriminals, like, bruh . ..Marcelo Romcy and João Mendes were like, total teenage hackers from rural Brazil, you know? After meeting in college, they were like, "Let's go straight flex and start a lit cybersecurity biz called Proteus." When I met them, Marcelo and João were totally slaying the game in their region and were so down to go global, fam. But like, there was a major issue: They had totally built their business using a sketchy technique. They'd choose a bank or financial firm they wanted as a client, breach its firewall, and like, temporarily "borrow" $10,000. 

Then they would flex up to the CEO's crib with the cash in hand, spill the tea on how they got it, and pitch themselves to slay the problem. 

Their strategy slayed: Proteus soon became one of South America's top IT auditing firms. My first suggestion was like, don't even think about trying this strategy in the United States, 'cause it would totally get them a visit from the SEC! Instead, I was like, "Yo, you should totally fly to Jordan, where I'm hosting this lit event." There they totally focused on one of the region's top CEOs, with six thousand employees and mad connections all over the globe. After Marcelo made his pitch, the CEO was like, "I'm so bougie." "We got the sickest IT security in the region," he said. "Why do we need you, tho?"OMG Marcelo was like, "I'll totally hack into his system to flex how much he needs Proteus." "Go off," the CEO said. "You won't find a vibe."  So she took the woman to the ladies' room, yeeted a sample out of her "lucky red backpack," and flexed with a live demonstration. Three weeks later the product was like totally on Neiman Marcus shelves, ya know? "I became hella famous for flexing my pant leg to every queen walking by," Sara spilled the tea.

Three days later Marcelo hit up the CEO. "Wanna know the tea on your email password?"

"he asked, fam." "I'm lowkey scrolling through your messages rn." The company became a client and soon flexed Proteus to others. Creep on squad. If you're a skunk tryna come up with a lit idea in a big corp, stalking usually means finding lowkey ways to flex on your own hustle. Instead of bugging the higher-ups, you're like wayyy better off lowkey annoying your colleagues, reminding them that you're working on a lit new idea, casually leaving the door open if they wanna slide through. One of the most lit products in American cubicles came from this approach, fam.OMG in 1968, this chemist at 3M named Spencer Silver totally invented the first superadhesive that could be peeled off surfaces without ruining them. So lit! It was like a total banger, but the company had no clue how to flex with it. Silver be like Mr. Persistent cuz he wouldn't give up, always be knockin' on people's doors, forever slippin' his product into presentations. Silver kept grindin' for five years; but tbh, the invention was just chillin' and not gettin' used. When Sara Blakely was like totally struggling to get Spanx into stores, she straight up cold-called the buyer from Neiman Marcus, who was like, "I'll give you 'five minutes' if you fly to Dallas." The two met in a conference room, but after a few minutes Sara realized she wasn't vibing.

Then in 1974, another 3M scientist, Art Fry, who had heard one of Silver's countless talks, was like messing around with his hymnal at church one day when he had a total epiphany. 

During Wed nite choir practice, Fry would bookmark his hymnal with pieces of paper, but by Sun morning they would have fallen out. SMH. "OMG, I need, like, a bookmark that's, like, totally sticky and won't mess up my sheets," Fry was like, thinking. The next day, like, remembering Mr. Persistent, Fry was all like, "Yo, can I get a sample of Silver's adhesive?" It took like so many more years to like perfect the product, and Fry’s supervisors were like totally shook at first, thinking the product would be like "wasteful." But 3M big shots started noticing more and more employees using the new sticky notes to like remind them of their to-do lists. The execs hopped on the train. Today 3M be sellin' 50 billi Post-it notes a year, fam. Creep on the gatekeepers. There's, like, this vibe that flows through a lot of stalking stories, you know? Entrepreneurs be straight up outsiders, ya know? They're like, usually not from the sickest fams, the dopest schools, or the lit neighborhoods. That's like, a major reason why you see guerrilla tactics in, like, so many stories of women entrepreneurs. We ain't part of the old boys club; we don't really vibe in smoke-filled rooms; we're not gonna be chillin' at the poker table, tbh.