A dictionary of modern lifeOriginal definitions · Illustrated satire

Modern life, properly defined.

Subjects

Finance & Startups.

Banking, investment, venture capital, startup mythology and the movement of numbers until they acquire claims on real things.

4 published definitions

  1. Governance & Procurement

    BUSINESS CASE n.

    Arithmetic prepared in support of a conclusion already reached.

  2. Cloud & Infrastructure

    FINOPS n.

    The ceremony by which a company gives its cloud waste a dashboard, a cost centre and an owner, thereby making it respectable.

  3. Finance & Startups

    VENTURE CAPITALIST n.

    A gambler distinguished from the ordinary kind by playing with other people's pensions.

  4. Finance & Startups

    BANKER n.

    One who lends what did not exist and forecloses upon what does.