Jordi Hays

Even if it's going viral, people might just summarize it.

I feel like there's still – I feel like a lot of people ascribe the value in the Midas list –

and what Forbes does to just the fact that it's a list and everyone wants to be on it and it has like legacy and brand and that's real.

But underrated is how incredible the photography is in a Forbes feature.

You can hire a great photographer and still not hit that level of like magazine cover look.

And if you offer that to someone who's gonna win the list,

if they understand media and the power of like a really high quality photograph and a photo that will live on and sort of immortalize them for like maybe a decade, you see a lot of people and their top Google result is still that cover that they did when their company hit unicorn status or something.

And you're like, wow, they look great there.

And then you meet them in person.

They're like, oh, that was a decade ago.

You got some gray hairs now.

But offering that as like a trade is an interesting proposition.

Something that looks different than just the LinkedIn profile photo against the wall.

Something that has action, background, texture.

Like these things are harder to recreate than people think.

They take it for granted because they show up everywhere, but they're usually because of a special thing.

Nothing's higher status than, the only thing higher status than the Midas list is the Alamy stock photo watermarked Getty Images watermark at Sun Valley.

That is the highest status symbol in Silicon Valley, in my opinion.

You can't buy it.

We need to be paying per use.