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Their bigger goal was to annotate everything, speeches, congressional bills, etc. I believe one of their founders spazzed out on Vyvanse once (or that’s what h
by runawaybottle 5y ago
Their bigger goal was to annotate everything, speeches, congressional bills, etc.
I believe one of their founders spazzed out on Vyvanse once (or that’s what he blamed it on):
https://venturebeat.com/2013/05/01/rap-genius-insane/amp/ https://venturebeat.com/2013/05/01/rap-genius-insane/amp/
”We take Vyvanse sometimes to turn up, at least I do. One of the reasons is I’m allergic to coffee. But also, you take one of those and it makes you feel so powerful.”
“We would do naked Adderall. This is before Y Combinator. It was just a germ. We’d stay there the whole day and work. We’d come up with fun theories. We came up with a theory that if you got a woman pregnant while on Adderall, the baby would be smarter. But only if the woman is also on Adderall.”
Lol.
I almost interviewed for them, but they insinuated they’d like you to perform a rap song in front of their team.
Pretty standard riding the startup-high unrealistic company - all doped up on speed (from their own words, and boy do I believe them).
- reducesuffering 5y agoAbsolutely hilarious. If I was doing a startup and looking for funding, I'd be making sure I don't remind Andreesen Horowitz at all of these guys...