Airbnb’s CMO Wants to Know: Is #FawadKhan the Next Bill Grizack?
Posted in: UncategorizedLet’s say you’re the chief marketing officer for one of the hottest “disruptors” in the world. Everybody wants a piece of your time.
Some people might even claim to know you or—even better—work under you!
Case in point: this Facebook post from Airbnb CMO Jonathan Mildenhall that went live last night.
Seems there might just be a bunch of professional bullshitters working in marketing. Who knew??
The responses to that post are absolutely worth reading. Khan seems to be making the rounds in San Francisco looking for work while claiming to be Mildenhall’s number two, and no one knows what to make of him.
We are now very interested. Check out the CV of this guy who (falsely) says he is VP of marketing at Airbnb:
Hmm…and these seem to be sweet endorsements from real people. So he can’t be completely fake, right?
In fact, a company called Green Charge announced in January that it had hired a Fawad Khan as VP of marketing. And the press release links back to—you guessed it—the same LinkedIn profile.
We reached out to Green Charge but did not get an immediate response. We also asked Khan himself (who just happens to share a name with Pakistan’s biggest film star) to connect on LinkedIn.
At the very least, this is further evidence that people continue to make shit up, even in a time when it’s almost impossible to get away with it.
Updates hopefully to come, because we are already in love with this dude who almost certainly didn’t graduate from Stanford.
