Who Is Cameron Greenwalt? Inside the Mind of Kellogg’s Most Prolific Slack Poster

By: Cathy Campo, co-Editor-in-Chief

It starts with a ping. Then another. Then the slowly dawning realization that it’s just another Slack message from Cameron Greenwalt (2Y ‘27).

By now, most Kellogg students don’t need a class roster or an introduction to know the name Cameron Greenwalt. They’ve heard it chime through their phones over, over, and over again.

In just one quarter, Cameron has become one of the most infamous personalities in his class, if not Kellogg at large, thanks to a prolific run of #hot_takes—19 to be exact—plus a personal crusade to launch the chaos-adjacent #silly-takes. (At press time, the channel sits at 118 members, two actual posts from anyone else, and more than 30 contributions from Cameron himself.)

His takes range wildly, from earnest (“Walking to school in the snow is actually a pretty lit experience, no cap” on November 10th) to architectural critique (“The global hub architects should have put more thought into where we’d put our backpacks in class and less thought into the design of the Spanish steps” on October 16th) to the socially explosive (“Hot takes is overrated and toxic af” on November 5th). Brands have social media managers; Kellogg has Cameron.

Now, for the first time, he’s sitting down to explain how he became the most prolific instigator, entertainer, and community organizer on Slack—and what he thinks everyone gets wrong about him.

The Human Behind the Hot Takes

Cameron and his family

When you meet him, the first surprise is that he’s… calm. Warm, even.  Like everyone else, my initial introduction to Cameron was through #hot_takes and I’ll admit, I expected someone louder, maybe even a little chaotic.

“My Kellogg Slack ‘villain’ persona,” he laughs, when I first broach the topic of his posts. “I’m actually super nice. Truly and 100%, I can be friends with anybody.”

Cameron grew up in Utah, just north of Salt Lake City. Before Kellogg, he worked at Dexcom, the medtech company, as a cloud software engineer for three ye

ars. He came to business school (with his JV, who he married in 2021) because, as he puts it, “I didn’t want to be an engineer my whole career. I want to be a business leader and decision maker.”

He talks about his life with the gentle clarity of someone who’s been forced to think deeply about it. He served as a missionary in North Carolina for his church. He’s navigated the hardships of grief, family estrangement, and fatherhood. A year ago, after his estranged father passed away, he was the one who handled all the affairs—just weeks before moving, then welcoming his newborn son two weeks later, all while interviewing for business school. “I’ve had to overcome so much in my life,” he says. “I know that I can do it.”

But the most formative challenge came quietly.

This summer, Cameron was diagnosed with narcolepsy, a diagnosis he shared school-wide in a #hot_takes post on November 20. For five years, he has been misdiagnosed with central sleep apnea. “It explained so much of my life,” he says, describing excessive daytime sleepiness, involuntary sleep episodes, and sleep paralysis that he’s dealt with since childhood.

“That I’m even here, doing this program—honestly, it’s pretty crazy.”

The diagnosis gave shape to his past. His father also suffered from narcolepsy. It also sharpened how he reads people now.

So, why the hot takes?

He didn’t plan any of it. He became particularly anti-#hot_takes during the fabric-ripping “chess controversy.” On November 14, a 2Y ‘27 wrote, “Chess is boring. It’s a glorified memory game, mathematically solvable, and so slow they had to add a clock to make it interesting.”

“Dude, let people enjoy what they enjoy,” he says. “That one annoyed me.”

From there, the posts snowballed—but not how people think.

“Nothing in #hot-takes is bad,” he explains. “But there’s a subgroup that becomes, ‘How much of a reaction can I get?’ And I don’t think that’s healthy for the school culture.”

While he refers to his Slack persona as “loony,” the purpose was real: create chaos, see who responds with humanity. Somewhere along the way, whether he intended to or not, Cameron became a kind of cultural barometer. His posts weren’t just gags; they tested the temperature of a community quick to react but slow to ask why someone might be reacting at all.

The backlash, the memes, the accusations of rage-bait

He’s aware of it all—especially the “rage-bait” label, which he seems to shrug off.

Meme created by VP of Photography, Gautam Chebrolu, on imflip (74 laugh reacts on #hot_takes)

“I promise you, in five years, it’s going to be so funny. I’m not worried about what people say. People will talk. The real ones will see right through it.”

Some posts he regrets; others he stands by. The most misunderstood, he says, was his MBB (i.e. McKinsey, Bain, BCG) comment: “MBB is really just M and ‘yeah you wish.’” (November 17)

“The prestige doesn’t matter. Why are we all chasing prestige?” he asks, genuinely confused by the obsession. He’s quick to add, “They’re all really hard to get into. I know that.”

Is this era coming to an end?

It may only just be the beginning. He’s adamant that his creation of #silly_takes wasn’t to “compete” with #hot_takes; rather it’s meant to serve as its “antithesis.” “I’m not posting because I think it’s going to make people laugh. I post because I think it’s funny. Life is better when you’re not trying to validate your worth through other people.”

He means it. He’s not on any social media besides LinkedIn. “If you get off social media, you start to realize things,” he says.

Cameron's posts in #silly_takes

Despite 118 lurkers, almost no one else posts in his channel. Though he insists, “I want other people to post in #silly-takes!”

Whether Cameron Greenwalt continues his reign as Kellogg’s unofficial Slack agent of chaos next quarter is anyone’s guess. But one thing is certain: Behind the notifications, behind the memes, behind the so-called “villain persona” is someone who has spent his whole life figuring out how to stay awake in a world constantly pulling at him—and who is learning, in real time, who sees him clearly when he does.

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