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Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#11

Post by skrebbel »

(I'm assuming that this is not satire - it looks a bit too real)

I really love it when people carry jokes into serious business and take it all the way to the end. There's a lot of guts in that. I envy that level of self-confidence and hope to one day get there myself.

That said, somehow I love it even more when such jokes get featured on HN and, invariably, shares of dry humorless grumpy people complain that they can't possibly take people who make jokes seriously. I always wonder what brings someone to distrust ballsy humor, I can't really wrap my head around it.

Personally, if someone has the guts to not only make a silly joke with friends over a beer, but actually turn it into a real thing (in this case, a venture fund), then that's the kind of person I want to do business with. That sort of guts shows elsewhere too (Elon Musk is a nice example).

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#12

Post by kijin »

Apocryphon wrote: post #8
IceCreamGondola wrote: post #6

Sorry but I would not trust a company that brands itself using a mythical monster to give me funding. If I'm putting the future of my company in the hands of some venture-capitalists I'd want to know they're the real deal and a company that uses: "Our goal, as Cthulhu, is to support initiatives designed to rise from the dark depths of R’lyeh (metaphorically speaking!) and end up destroying or at least disrupting, som…

https://www.mithril.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valar_Ventures

You forgot Palantir. As soon as you see a Tolkien reference in a company's name, you know Peter Thiel is involved.

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#13

Post by Apocryphon »

kijin wrote: post #12
Apocryphon wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.mithril.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valar_Ventures

You forgot Palantir. As soon as you see a Tolkien reference in a company's name, you know Peter Thiel is involved.

Yeah, I just wanted to mention the ones that were specifically for investment, as the ancestral post talked about VC firms. Tech companies are known to follow more- whimsical branding schemes.

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#14

Post by BLKNSLVR »

dmix wrote: post #9
sansnomme wrote: post #4

I hate to ask this but is this satire?

Nope looks real after digging deeper. Based on the portfolio it looks to be based on Australia or NZ.

The website footer Contact section:

  Cthulhu Ventures llc
  100 Shoreline Hwy • Suite B280
  Mill Valley, CA 94941
  Tel: 415-444-9602 • Fax: 415-444-9602
  info at cthulhuventures.com

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#16

Post by SandersAK »

"Our goal, as Cthulhu, is to support initiatives designed to rise from the dark depths of R’lyeh (metaphorically speaking!) and end up destroying or at least disrupting, some market paradigm."

Happy to maintain social paradigms though - only one woman on then entire team...

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#17

Post by Haga »

skrebbel wrote: post #11

(I'm assuming that this is not satire - it looks a bit too real) I really love it when people carry jokes into serious business and take it all the way to the end. There's a lot of guts in that. I envy that level of self-confidence and hope to one day get there myself. That said, somehow I love it even more when such jokes get featured on HN and, invariably, shares of dry humorless grumpy people complain that they ca…

If you can't laugh and experiment, your childhood has ended and one will never innovate agae.

Re: Cthulhu Ventures

#19

Post by happy_path »

Apocryphon wrote: post #8
IceCreamGondola wrote: post #6

Sorry but I would not trust a company that brands itself using a mythical monster to give me funding. If I'm putting the future of my company in the hands of some venture-capitalists I'd want to know they're the real deal and a company that uses: "Our goal, as Cthulhu, is to support initiatives designed to rise from the dark depths of R’lyeh (metaphorically speaking!) and end up destroying or at least disrupting, som…

https://www.mithril.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valar_Ventures

Tangencial question: aren't those names copyright by the Tolkien Estate?

I remember TSR had an issue using hobbit in their D&D game.

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