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I did not know that Anthropic released a new model for complex art
Holy shit Claude Mellan absolutely mogs, i don’t know how traditional artists survive this one
Everyone wants founders to be bold and brave, but not enough people expect the same from investors
If your backers don’t have the balls to go alongside you no matter what, it’s just generational aura debt
Respect to the VCs with aura, they don’t get enough credit
In 2020 my friend did blackface to land a job in big tech
In 2022 he pretended gay to raise a seed round from silicon valley VCs
In 2024 he converted to judaism to gain political favor
Now it is 2026, he is left a disgraced blackfacing gay jew with nothing to show for it
in a sense venture capital funds are kind of like robinhood in that they take money from the rich and distribute it amongst the poor
The rich in this scenario being the VCs liquidity providers, the poor being the founders
What’s funnier is founders, to please VCs often also become robinhood, taking money from the rich(the investors) and giving it away as free incentives for new users to use their tech
My friend from a super rich family in Singapore started angel investing with the thesis of only funding founders he thinks are pure of heart, kind and very polite
He has made 14 investments over the past 2 years and each one has completely outperformed expectations
Every culture has its own definition of aura, but eventually everyone seems to get to the same answer
I feel like we should legalize corruption and fraud within startup raising and VC
This will lead to crime rate within this field going straight to zero very quickly
I’m voting for the politics that support this
A dyslexic investor friend of mine funded what he thought was a Due Diligence company with AI integration
Turns out company name was Dude Diligence and it helped gay guys rank higher on the looksmaxx PSL scale and find guys to hook up with in SF
Unironically sounds like a good investment though
I can’t wait to see the first VC company to fund a $100m seed round to a startup powered by a flys brain
We are yet to see a VC decision made by using a human brian
I remember one time i almost said yes to lead a round for this startup founder but then i changed my mind after we hopped off our final call
I felt so bad, i just blocked him and pretended to have died
A new untapped opportunity dropped
Use the new higgsfield x after effects collaboration in Codex to completely obliterate the motion design market in your local area
Usually freelance motion designers earn $120k yearly, you can scale this 20x easily and reach a 24m ARR in like a months time even in underdeveloped countries
Scale further and profit
A friend of mine who worked in HR all his life finally made it recently after vibe coding some content automation software for tiktok and instagram and selling that to his company
They just buy it without question because it’s the trend, he’s making $60-130 k per month off just a couple of clients and he’s sure this market is only going to get bigger
He doesn’t even have anything interesting set up architecturally, he’s just dming him offer to people at middle sized companies and they’re paying him to at least test it, it’s insane
A founder i invested in recently had a tough time answering some of my questions so i gave him the nickname “gpt 3.5”
Now every time im on a call with him and his board, we all laugh at him and say his context window is filled up whenever he stutters
He’s gonna be a billionaire, i’m sure of it
An angel investor friend of mine wrote a $100k check to an AI startup preventing illegal immigration in the USA
He found out a year later that instead of preventing, the founders were housing immigrants in their office in SF
You’re not liberal enough