Well you don’t get to have that. Possible access to your father is enough for you to get priveleges.
She will ALWAYS have help lol
Who is this bozo?
So, I was thinking about the Russian aristocracy today…
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.
Well I guess as long as she has a ‘chip’ on her shoulderFUCK yeah F+G. Rarely seen in the wild.
Lightning in a bottle, that cast.
Well, most of that cast.
The only thing she wants is for us to be talking about it, and well here you all are …
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
“Child of prominent pedophile has an AI startup” is such a vibe right now.
Did she go to the island? That’s my question.
Still… Fuck AI.
Okay, well I definitely wondered what the hell the star of Gremlins and Drop Dead Fred was getting up to.
They’re just insane, the whole lot of them.
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.
I’d be surprised if there’s actual AI behind it. That functionality already exists and works just fine.
it’s a small indian man named Al.
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.
She just wants to be treated like any other totally unqualified person whose mom gave her commencement speed and got handed 100 million dollars to start up a made up company.
That then told everyone about her company, that she doesn’t want any privilege in promoting, to her many followers.
