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We've entered the "bond villain" era of VC startups

• ben_w 3mo ago
  That was some time ago. Musk himself tweeted about getting a volcano lair in 2015.
  • fragmede 3mo ago
    2014 was the inflection point. 2013 brought us the term unicorn for companies, and was just long enough after the iphone that we were starting to make sense of it. That's when Elon Musk became a household name thanks to Tesla and SpaceX. Then there was Palantir. Google bought Deepmind in 2014. Google Facebook Amazon and Apple showed founders that software startups could transform the world, and the world leapt at the chance.
• datakan 3mo ago
  Someone tried to recruit me back in 2000 for a startup that would sell a box you connect to your computer allowing you to smell things over the internet. I'll let you guess what industry he was targeting.
  • wildzzz 3mo ago
    Ah yes, the best part of human intimacy: the smells!
    • kadoban 3mo ago
      You're being sarcastic but you're not far wrong. Scent is a big part of attraction and sex. It's somewhat subtle, but important. Artifically capturing that sounds...doomed though.
  • roysting 3mo ago
    Was it ... Musk?