About

Tanvir Sultan, MBA is a satirical Facebook profile posing as a grindset-minded business executive. Posts on the profile will be written in the style of a CEO with an offbeat point of view, though the stories often involve Sultan firing employees for basic requests and needs. The profile went viral in October of 2023 after one of its posts was taken at face value by a wide swath of Twitter users.

History

While it's unclear the precise date the Tanvir Sultan, MBA^[1] account launched, but the account's profile picture (shown below) was uploaded on September 7th, 2023. It is the earliest post from the account.

Over the following weeks, Sultan posted anecdotes with the premise of instilling wisdom for business, though many of these stories involved treating employees poorly. For example, on September 20th, he posted his opinion that company meetings should last over an hour and involve everyone in the company^[2] (shown below, left). On October 26th, he posted a story about offering an employee who had been given an offer from another company a raise, then firing that employee in six months for considering another job offer^[3] (shown below, right).

Of note, the personal website he has listed, tanvirsultan.com,^[4] goes to a page where a supposed person Sultan had hired to make him a website named Iqbal was not paid, and created an insulting webpage in protest (shown below).

Online Presence

Within two months of launching, Tanvir Sultan MBA gained over 14,000 likes and 19,000 followers.^[1] On October 25th, 2023, one of his posts, where Sultan claimed to have fired an employee who told him he and his partner were about to have a baby (shown below), was reposted to Twitter by @VCBrags,^[5] gaining over 370 retweets and 3,300 likes in one day, as well as @RoshanPateI,^[6] gaining over 640 retweets and 4,300 likes in one day.

The post stunned many on social media who did not know Tanvir Sultan MBA was a satirical account (examples shown below).

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