Phoebe Cates>>>>>Phoebe Gates

What, those aren’t the kind of high powered names you expect to be seeing on Shark Tank one day?

I'd be concerned about monied motives driving suggestions. Even if it starts out neutral, how can we as consumers be sure it won't become corrupted? Enshittification is par for the course these days, I'd be extremely wary about relying on an app to tell me real, unbiased price info unless its mechanisms and sources are (and remain) completely transparent.

With what money did she start the business then? Get the F out of here with that crap. Also, so original, going into AI like everyone else.

Oh, I didn't say a human, I just meant a standard non-AI algorithm

Ohhhhhh yeah this is just 100% LLM garbage. No machine learning. Forgive me; I don’t often talk to people that understand the difference so my default is human vs LLM not LLM vs <insert something AI that isn’t LLM>. Trying to explain machine learning vs LLM summaries to data company business executives wears you down.

Edit: also my frame of mind was on the more recent Waymo “our AI just goes to a human when it’s hard” news that followed the Amazon “it was always a Mechanical Turk” news which is why I jumped to human.

It's called a smug look. XD

If she really wants to show the world how good she is, and non-privileged, she can change her name, get into community college while working a minimum wage job, and then start a multimillion dollar business on her own from her savings, without getting carried through life by her father.

Relevant

"Wow, what does your startup do?"

"It synthesizes mining crypto by capturing efforts from Microsoft users trying to uninstall bloatware in Windows 11"

Careful. You're about to get called a Tankie

And the "connections" which is just fancy-speak for "rich friends."

Same way daddy did it

Baby, I’m an anarchist.

well, there's a website I'm never going back to. that layout is just offensive. and this is after after dismissing the cookies popup

Real question: what on earth does "on the street" mean in the tech startup world? Because I have a strong suspicion that "on the street" means just going to work a normal job like 300 million other people even despite personal anecdotes of one or two people who literally became homeless.

Having the bottom fall out really changes your perspective. Folks need to have empathy and I have a strong sensation that those well off don't realize that most of us are a few missed paychecks or a medical emergency away from being destitute.

Yep. That's exactly who I thought. Then I saw the picture and thought, "wow she hasn't aged a bit!"

Stephen King's child at least doesn't write under the name "King" to avoid nepotism. I can't read the actual paid article because just going off headlines is apparently OK here, but it doesn't seem like she's trying.

Her chip on her shoulder is a tiny one she blows out of proportion, like so many "problems" of the uber-wealthy.

Gates isn't the only one with a chip on their shoulder, people generally don't get called "Tankies" just for criticizing crony capitalism

I miss when actors used to be some random boxer a director met in a Cuban bar or the drunk tank, instead of the executive producer's nibling or some fucking baronet.

I mean nepotism is hardly a new problem :)

True lol, it's never not been, it's hardwired into humans, but it was nice when certain industries were new and there wasn't so much buildup for the enthrenchment

In addition to the multiple throws, and in addition to the direct nepotistic help, there is also just the osmosis effect. How many people would give their right arm to get basic mentoring from Bill Gates? Just knowing someone who’s succeeded at something gives you a massive cultural window into that thing and how to nail it. This kid is delusional. If she wants to do something totally on her own she should be a movie director or race car driver or flower arranger. What’s that? Starting up a tech company? Ohh… how original.

Homie do you rawdog the internet without an adblocker??

If she wanted to do this she'd change her name and disavow her inheritence.

The first time I had a friend reccomend him, I gave them a funny look, thinking they were talking about Joe Hill the musician and labor organizer XD

Edit: I'm sick of people mentioning musicians without songs; here's Preacher and the Slave, from which we get the term "Pie in the Sky".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RHyGpFncovU

Performed by the late Utah Phillips, as Joe Hill was executed a good 110 years ago.

I haven't set up a browser adblocker on that computer, as I've never really found the need. pihole usually takes care of everything well enough

There’s a great ballad of Joe Hill by Phil Ochs.