an Indian-American hired woman to slap him every time he used Facebook. Elon Musk’s reaction
Elon Musk simply replied to a tweet about Maneesh Sethi’s story with two blaze emojis, thus arousing his followers’ curiosity about the slapping experiment.Maneesh Sethi found the results of his whacky experiment “astounding” after hiring a slapper. (Image credit: Screenshot from Hack the System with Maneesh Sethi)
The story of an Indian-American hiring a woman to slap him every time he opened Facebook has caught the internet’s attention again, thanks to just two emojis from billionaire Elon Musk.
Maneesh Sethi, founder of wearable devices brand Pavlok, hired a woman to slap him in the face every time he used Facebook. He hired the woman through US classified advertisements website Craigslist. He offered $8 an hour for the job that required the person to work sitting next to him at a café or his home and watch his screen.
“When I am wasting time, you’ll have to yell at me or if need be, slap me,” he had written in the ad in 2012. Sethi found the results of his whacky experiment “astounding” after hiring the slapper, Kara.
“My average productivity runs around 35-40% on most days. When Kara sat next to me, my productivity skyrocketed to 98%,” he wrote in a blog.
Sethi’s experiment was widely reported in 2012 and now, nine years later, he earned an emoji from Elon Musk, whose words on Twitter have the power to push cryptocurrency rates from record highs and get the internet talking.
