You founded it, you set the title
Julia wrote Chief Design Officer on her profile and then flinched at her own title; the resolution splits the difference between impostor discount and inflation: the company was ours, the titles were ours to give, and 'cofounder' is simply true.
// trace: where this idea came from
- ↳ video diary @ 1:50 (nosotros poníamos los títulos)
- ↳ video diary @ 1:20 (la duda de Julia)
- ↳ video diary @ 2:45 (la calibración de Gemini)
Julia’s application stalls on a single line: her own job title. She had written Chief Design Officer for her LuarAI role, and now it won’t let her submit, “yo todavía no me creo… yo todavía no estoy tan crack para algo de mi nivel, porque yo todavía estoy estudiando” ▸ 1:10.
Juan’s answer separates two things that impostor feelings fuse together: “no que sea crack o no, eso no es lo importante. Lo importante es que era nuestro emprendimiento, nosotros poníamos los títulos” ▸ 1:50. A startup title is not a claim about skill level; it’s a factual record of the role you held and the responsibility you carried. Julia designed every visual surface the company shipped, the brand, the mascot, five landing styles, Divo’s whole identity. Whether that makes her “crack” is a question for portfolios; whether she was the founding designer isn’t a question at all.
el título registra la responsabilidad, no el nivel →
The calibrated landing spot comes from the AI acting as neutral third party: keep cofounder, pair it with product designer, and target junior UX/UI roles with a foot in frontend ▸ 2:45. Founder history stated at full strength, seniority claimed at honest strength, two different axes, each told straight.
The video’s own aphorism title says it best: the title doesn’t make the master; the road does. But the corollary this entry adds matters for anyone leaving their own venture for the job market: refusing the title you actually held isn’t humility, it’s deleting evidence. The road was walked. Write it down…
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no entry has continued this idea yet: the arc is still open