They have no frame of reference whatsoever.

They’re out of their element! They’re like a child that wanders into the middle of a movie . . .

The appearance of nepotism.

Nicholas Coppola got cast by his uncle, when any random 15 year old aspiring actor would never stand a chance.

He then changes his name so that other people in Hollywood will (hopefully) not say “oh he got that part because he’s Coppola’s nephew,” even if he absolutely got that job because he’s Coppola’s nephew.

That then told everyone about her company, that she doesn't want any privilege in promoting, to her many followers.

I'm not disputing that he got his first few roles due to his connections, but changing his name absolutely would have distanced him from his relatives in other directors' eyes.

You have misunderstood. He was in fact the beneficiary of nepotism: staring in his uncle’s films. But to keep this a secret, he changed his name. He was hiding the nepotism, not trying to avoid nepotism.

Walk a little more softly. You came off as confidently wrong there.

I hope in 10 years we find out shes secretly a cyborg and meant that litterally, the prototype chip is on (in) her shoulder.

He was given roles in his uncles film because he was his nephew. The name change just swept this under the rug. He wanted to get the roles but not let anyone know he got them through favoritism.

No it wouldn't/didn't, but it would/did to the masses.

The shopping assistant plugs into browsers like Chrome and Safari to compare prices and surface deals across tens of thousands of retail and resale sites in real time. It essentially serves as your own personal deal finder: Say you’re looking at a $200 dress from Anthropologie, Phia can find and compare prices at secondhand sellers to help customers find a better price.

Gates and Kianni first brainstormed startup ideas in their Stanford dorm room, cycling through concepts before landing on a consumer tool that included Gates’ interest in women’s empowerment (likely modeled after her own mother) and Kianni’s sustainability focus.

I don’t think a coupon tool that wastes excessive resources is either empowering or sustainable.

Yeah that is real nail on the head stuff. The poverty trap is real. I really believe everyone should be poor once in their life for at least a year with no end in sight because many / most who haven't experienced it don't have the empathetic capacity to imagine it.

But his latter movies are awesome and I love him, so I'll let it slide.

Yeah I like him too. The only asterisk on that is that I guess I might like some other actor better who didn’t have a family “in”

I'd be surprised if there's actual AI behind it. That functionality already exists and works just fine.

There are already browser extensions that do this.

They are notorious for intercepting connections, adding their own referral links, tracking users and other badness.

https://www.theverge.com/24343913/paypal-honey-megalag-coupon-scam-affiliate-fees

Surely the AI version will be better…. ..

like shot in the head and scrawled sideways in the margins

FTFY.

The featured article under this is titled

Hailey Bieber and Kris Jenner back Phoebe Gates’ fashion tech startup Phia in $8 million seed round

hilarious stuff

absolutely would have distanced him from his relatives in other directors' eyes.

Nah, everyone in the industry would know about this. But random people on the street wouldn't. And that's what it's about when you want to be famous.

Phoebe Cates has an AI startup??

it's a small indian man named Al.

this comment makes sense, but your original comment said something else that was genuinely confusing.

"Child of prominent pedophile has an AI startup" is such a vibe right now.

Yes, but she will have really earned it unlike the other trust fund super villains.

They're just insane, the whole lot of them.

"I got the VC money, not my problem anymore!"

Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name'

But you have no problem with the $35 million they gave you? That's part of your privilege. You say you want to succeed without it while stuffing your pockets with it.

The only thing she wants is for us to be talking about it, and well here you all are ...

I’d be surprised if a human were behind it. This is exactly the kind of thing that can be vibe coded pretty fast and is mostly just reselling fancy Google searches through an LLM. I did a quick skim of the website and it’s just a bunch of items scraped from big brands with lots of similar looking images of other products. There’s too many sites for me to really believe they’ve made integrations with all of them.

The insane valuation is because of her name not because the tech is good. The only way to make money on this is the customer data. The margin on that is going to be fucking minuscule especially once LLM costs start going up so they can make money. This adds nothing of value on top so it will go away almost immediately.

Well I guess as long as she has a 'chip' on her shoulder

Still... Fuck AI.

FUCK yeah F+G. Rarely seen in the wild.

Okay, well I definitely wondered what the hell the star of Gremlins and Drop Dead Fred was getting up to.

two of em. and they’re spectacular.

Stanford

The forever accurate red flag!

Did she go to the island? That's my question.

She will ALWAYS have help lol

So, I was thinking about the Russian aristocracy today…

Who is this bozo?

I guess it could be interpreted ways other than I intended, but since I know how it was intended, it’s kind of hard for my brain to successfully see how.

Well you don't get to have that. Possible access to your father is enough for you to get priveleges.

A coworker of mine left to start his own startup. He claimed that the IPO of an old employer gave him a little bit of cushion to work with, and he was going to take his shot. I wished him well. It was a crazy dumb app idea. But you never know.

I do remember thinking “gee and he just had a baby too, what a time to take a risk.” I later learned that he had married old money. The second he had a kid with her, he couldn’t lose.

Lightning in a bottle, that cast.

Well, most of that cast.

It's certainly delusional. I've been active in the innovation space for ~25 years, and for most normal people it's taking a massive risk. Here, she's not ending-up on the street if the venture flops, so the risk is low.

So merit my ass, it's easy to take a risk if it's not real risk, i.e. I agree and don't appreciate the sentiment.

somehow it seemed like you were saying that he was trying to hide that he was failing at making it on his own, which is confusing in a couple directions. anwyay sorry for taking up your time. i meant well and wish you the best. :)

gates is her father apparently.

you arnt independtly wealthy, if you have a "credit card" from your wealthy family and you are living on your own. same goes for CV/RESUME.

shes basically like the rich people that think they are independant and living on thier own, but thier parents give them a credit card to do pay whatever she wants on her own,.

ive seen quite a few actors recently try to do this or trying to downplay thier nepotism.

ah yes stanford, along with other well known UNIVERSITIES, that produces elitists graduates, she says she doesnt want to be "Associated with having a famous parents that paid for everything, including her AI company.