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Humane AI Pin is a disaster: Founders already want to sell the company (arstechnica.com)
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Despite seemingly having nothing else in the pipeline and the AI Pin being dead on arrival, Bloomberg reports the company is "seeking a price of between $750 million and $1 billion in a sale."

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[–] 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Remember when nerds used to be smarter than us? That was awesome.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's important to realize that the nerd you saw on the news has always been someone wearing nerd as a costume and the entire history of technology is loaded with examples of the real nerd being marginalized. It's just that in ages past the VC's would give a smaller amount of money and require the startup to go through concrete milestones to unlock all of it so there was more of a chance for the founder's dreams to smack up against reality before they were $230m in the hole with no product worth selling.

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