Founders Holding Things apes executives' hand gestures with Super Soakers and pugs
The team behind office space marketplace Hubble have taken advantage of the gratuitous hand movements demonstrated by tech and startup founders to create Founders Holding Things - which does exactly what it says on the tin.
FHT shows a number of company heads, including Mark Zuckerberg, Virgin’s Richard Branson, Love Home Swap's Debbie Wosskow and Y Combinator’s Jessica Livingston appearing to hold Super Soakers, Pokeballs, fishing rods and dogs in their excitedly outstretched and poised hands.
According to Tom M. Watson, CTO at Hubble, the side project is one of many the team makes just for fun, although they usually stay in-house.
He said: “It all started as a Friday side project. We noticed our chairman Rohan Silva was always caught speaking using big gestures in photos and then we realised that most other startup founders like to do it as well.
“When we started to Google around it wasn’t hard to find these photos that looked like prime targets for some good old fashioned Photoshop.”
While the site was viewed over 25,000 times within the first few hours of going live on February 10th, Watson insisted it was never meant to act as a marketing beacon for Hubble, adding: “Whilst we tend to keep all our side projects in house, people from other companies in our shared office started looking at our monitors and cracking up, so we thought we’d release it to the public and hope others found it as funny as we did.”
Some of the founders pictured have even joined in on the fun, tweeting their own reactions to the modified pictures.
Hah nice one guys :) https://t.co/r8oM7fB6pG
— Rajeeb Dey (@rajdey) February 10, 2016
This made me laugh. Ha! https://t.co/hUvVrbXczv — Michelle Zatlyn (@zatlyn) February 11, 2016
View the full gallery at FoundersHoldingThings.com.