- Founders Behaving Badly
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#1: There ain’t no party like a Cluely party because a Cluely party gets shut down before starting
Rage-bait virtuoso Chugin Lee (founder and CEO of Cluely) planned to throw an after-party for a Y Combinator event. It got shut down for having too many would-be attendees blocking traffic.
“It would have been the most legendary party in tech history. And I would argue that the reputation of this story might just make it the most legendary party that never happened,” he reportedly told TechCrunch.
But Amber, that’s not really bad behavior! Why did you include it here?
Good question. Because I simply cannot stand this company and its characters. But hey, maybe this is my Old Man Yells At Clouds moment 🤷
it me
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#2: Automating people out of jobs is gonna be great for everyone because just trust me bro
The founders of Mechanize, an AI startup, have the lofty goal to “get to a fully automated economy,” which IMHO is really stupid. But I’m not a VC investor, so what do I know!!
Anyway, they joined the Hard Fork podcast and had a lot of nothing to say about the social consequences of trying to replace human workers :) :) :)
Here’s a lil snippet:
“I would say that there are costs to automating everything. It’s true that people will lose their jobs. However, we need to compare this to the enormous upside potential from automating all jobs, which is this vast prosperity that would be created from automating labor. It’d be the fact that goods and services would be much easier to produce, which would mean that we’d just have a much higher standard of living across virtually all areas of life.”
Replacing jobs = higher standard of living. Got it. Makes perfect sense.
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#3: Kid-tested, CEO approved
The CEO and co-founder of Scale AI, Alexandr Wang, is waiting to have kids until brain Neuralink-type implants are consumer-ready so his children can tap into AI and become the next generation of superhumans/computers.
Hey, Trump was right about one thing.
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#4: Live, laugh, love your job
Lucy Guo, cofounder of Scale AI and newly minted billionaire, thinks work-life balance is kinda overrated, actually.
That’s all for now. And as always,
ALLEGEDLY 💋
Hey, I’m Amber! I’m a freelance content marketer/consultant and aspiring humorist. You can find me on LinkedIn, Medium, Bluesky, and my website. If you really like what I’m doing, you can buy me a coffee.
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