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Elsbeth Recap: Death by Corporatespeak
AI, tech CEOs, and garbage language are no match for Elsbeth.
Quinn is the hard-driving yet deeply vulnerable pretty young blonde woman who has taken a high school trauma — being mugged steps from her front door as she walked home from a One Direction concert — and, upon its ashes, built a seemingly robust crowdsourced crime-foiling app, Cerberus. She immediately shifts to damage control mode, but unlike most corporate reputation protectors, she doesn’t ask her legal department to draft a cease-and-desist letter, seek an injunction, or even just request some detail about what he’d like her to comment on. Quinn also pre-records a 90-minute presentation on the forthcoming IPO and hits play in her all-staff online meeting, but not before demonstrating what an exceptionally gifted abuser of corporate-speak like “accountability” and performative land acknowledgments.
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