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  • lagrangeinterpolator@awful.systemsEnglish
    8Ā·
    20 hours ago

    Randomly stumbled upon one of the great ideas of our esteemed Silicon Valley startup founders, one that is apparently worth at least 8.7 million dollars: https://xcancel.com/ndrewpignanelli/status/1998082328715841925#m

    Excited to announce weā€™ve raised $8.7 Million in seed funding led by @usv with participation from [list a bunch of VC firms here]

    @intelligenceco is building the infrastructure for the one-person billion-dollar company. You still canā€™t use AI to actually run a business. Current approaches involve lots of custom code, narrow job functions, and old fashioned deterministic workflows. Weā€™re going to change that.

    Weā€™re turning Cofounder from an assistant into the first full-stack agent company platform. Teams will be able to run departments - product/engineering, sales/GTM, customer support, and ops - entirely with agents.

    Then, in 2026 weā€™ll be the first ones to demonstrate a software company entirely run by agents.

    $8.7 million is quite impressive, yes, but I have an even better strategy for funding them. They can use their own product and become billionaires, and now they can easily come up with $8.7 million considering that is only 0.87% of their wealth. Are these guys hiring? I also have a great deal on the Brooklyn Bridge that I need to tell them about!

    Our branding - with the sunflowers, lush greenery, and people spending time with their friends - reflects our vision for the world. Thatā€™s the world we want to build. A world where people actually work less and can spend time doing the things they love.

    Weā€™re going to make it easy for anyone to start a company and build that life for themselves. The life they want to build, and spend every day dreaming about.

    This just makes me angry at how disconnected from reality these people are. All this talk about giving people better lives (and lots of sunflowers), and yet it is an unquestionable axiom that the only way to live a good life is to become a billionaire startup founder. These people do not have any understanding or perspective other than their narrow culture that is currently enabling the rich and powerful to plunder this country.

    • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
      8Ā·
      18 hours ago

      It somewhat goes without saying that this is the natural outcome of Paul Graham and others emphasizing the creation of new startup companies over the utility and purpose of the products and tools that those companies make. An empty business for generating more empty businesses.