CTO-zoned in the elevator

Have you ever been CTO’zoned? I’m an Indian guy working on H1B. Met a Chinese girl in the apartment elevator (high rises, so the elevator rides are typically longer). Liked her and built up the courage to talk to her before the elevator ride ended. Found a good icebreaker (she was wearing hoodie with a caption, don seem to remember), and then talked about COVID, 2020 and what we do to earn a living! She looked like she was interested and she asked for my number right before leaving. She later reached out and said she wanted to meet and talk. We met soon and she ended up pitching her startup idea to me. She says she wants me to help her build her website and potentially be the CTO. Has something similar happened to any of y’all? Would love to know that I’m not the only one.

A screenshot of a social media post tells the story of an Indian H1B worker who thinks a Chinese woman is romantically interested after meeting in an apartment elevator. She later contacts him, but only to pitch her startup and ask him to help build a website, potentially as CTO. The joke is a pun on being “friend-zoned”: he was CTO-zoned instead, mistaken for a technical cofounder rather than a romantic partner.

• @dev_meme / 2675 2021-01-25