**TITLE: I Pretended to Be a Nobody at My Own Company… Then I Walked Into the Boardroom**
I used to read Reddit stories like this and think they were fake… until it happened to me.
For 3 years, I worked at a tech company I helped build from the ground up. Not as CEO on paper though. Officially? I was “just an advisor.” I stayed in the background on purpose.
Why? Because I wanted to see what people would do when they thought I had no power.
At first, it was small things. Managers ignoring my