I'm honestly surprised they made 10,000 sales.

I am also seeking a $1 billion buy out, to compensate for years of being underpaid! What a coincidence!

No one wants badly executed overheating slow Google assistant in a pointless little box. You already have a superior assistant in your pocket, reacting to your voice.

ask for 1B valuation with only ~7M in sales + ~240k/mo subscription revenue… hmmmm gonna be a no for me Dogg

I'm sure there's some MBA douche stupid enough to buy it.

I don’t see how the AI assistant won’t eventually just end up on the smartphone. And, given that it’s not always appropriate to talk out loud to your phone, being able to use it with a screen makes it the perfect device for it.

"MKBHD takes out another company" /s

How do you actually get the oil from the snake though?

I’m also be seeking for a 1 billion payout

At least my product is working as intended

Huh - so it turns out people liked how smartphones consolidated all their various devices into one?

I guess the era of the hardware app is over…

Inevitably. That's the goal of most tech startups; hype themselves up and sell out for as many millions as possible. Meanwhile honest labor, education, and trades workers can't afford houses.

Thinking about the cost of maintenance, liabilities, and ethical/moral decisions

• you couldn't pay me enough to take on that company

good luck to anyone else thinking otherwise

HP is reportedly one of the companies that Humane was in talks with over a potential sale

They didn’t learn the lesson with webos? They lost billions even if that was a good os with good phones.

Can’t imagine anyone wanting to buy this company for more than 1million and that’s just because of patents and devs (acquihire - where the buyer is only interested in ip and devs and doesn’t care at all about the actual product)

I could draw a kitten for that kind of money if anyone is interested. At least there are no monthly costs to it.

What an insane valuation, lol. I wonder how gullible their seeders/initial investors were when they pitched the company initially. Needing to get that much money to settle bills and debts just blows my mind. Shit like this is why I sold my AMD shares at its peak a few months ago and why it's probably worth considering selling Nvidia now as it's peaking. The AI boom may peak a bit higher, but I think the frenzy is going to begin waning within the next ~6 months as more and more investors realize the tech is still very limited outside of backend enterprise use (e.g. using LLMs to ingest all your SOPs, regulations, technical documents, etc. and then make it available for employees to query for random work questions).

But who knows, I've been wrong before.

saying the quiet part out loud out of desperation

Humane as a company is worth the cost of exactly 10,000 units.

Ed Zitron is going to have a field day with this one.

Tell me it's being bought by a data mining company?