A messaging app startup that raised $200M shuts down afters users were 95% fake
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#3I remember this being a significant plot point in "Silicon Valley". I suppose life imitates art imitating life.
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#4I guess this is the way to get rich quick now. Imagine a company with millions of fake users all created by a LLM app.
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#5How are messaging apps still getting these valuations when Telegram, signal, Whatsapp and lime chat exist?
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#6How are messaging apps still getting these valuations when Telegram, signal, Whatsapp and lime chat exist?
The economy is detached from reality
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#7I remember this being a significant plot point in "Silicon Valley". I suppose life imitates art imitating life.
Succession, too!
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#8Are softbank actually the biggest idiots in VC? It almost seems like everything they invest in is a handshake deal built on "just trust me bro" numbers.
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#10How are messaging apps still getting these valuations when Telegram, signal, Whatsapp and lime chat exist?
Only one of those doesn't require your phone number.
It'll be nice when we get to the point where we can have a proper working chat app that doesn't require one. Hangouts used to be great but Google has to always make sure their chat doesn't work.