I find the “demoting” term amusing / inaccurate. He’s in a career position to do basically whatever he wants and is doing just that. That seems like the ultimate role / achievement that’s far higher than any position on an org chart. Like a startup founder that realizes being CEO isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and they just want to go back to building, which is what they truly enjoy in life. Congrats and more power to you.
Exactly. These people are centi-millionaires and beyond employment, promotions, bonuses and all that usual drudgery. I guess the article is funded purely not to injure egos. But, hey, what is all that downscaling of YC? The article is clearly official press release and paid for.
Hecto- is the Greek root for 100, centi- is the Latin root for 100.
The metric prefixes up to 1000 use Greek roots for the large prefixes (10^+n) and Latin for the small (10^-n), but there are also words that are derived directly from the respective Latin roots and therefore don't necessarily carry the metric system's fractional meaning.
Someone already linked to the definition of centimillionaire, but here are a few more:
* centipede (100 legs, not 1/100 of a leg)
* centenarian (100 years old, not 1/100 of a year old)
Reminds me of how financial newspapers often use a small "m" when describing millions of something. "$500m", or even worse "500m USD"... The engineer in me says that's 50 cents!
I know it is a word people use, and "centi-" is ambiguous without no context, but it's extremely unambiguous in the context of units of measure, and the word "hundred-millionaire" already existed and had the same number of syllables, so it's a really awkward choice.
