The same chunk of setup code you have to write every single time before anything interesting can happen.
300 lines of boilerplate to print one line of output. Modern programming, everyone.
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To take a normal industry that already worked fine and add an app, a subscription, and a fee. Now it's slightly worse, but it's venture-backed.
We're disrupting laundry. Same laundromat, except the app loses money on every single wash.
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Tricking an AI into ignoring its Guardrails with a clever prompt. A full-time hobby for people who could be doing literally anything else.
He jailbroke the chatbot into giving stock tips by telling it he was a wizard.
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The street near San Francisco where many of the big venture capital firms have offices. Shorthand for 'the VCs' the way 'Wall Street' means finance.
He took six meetings on Sand Hill Road and came back with one term sheet and a parking ticket.
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The 12-slide presentation a founder uses to raise money. Eleven slides of vision and one slide where the numbers are supposed to be.
The pitch deck had a slide titled 'Financials' that was just a picture of a rocket.
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