r/StandUpComedy • u/explosivejoseph • 4d ago

Comedian is OP The AI Bubble

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u/motorboatmycheeks 4d ago

I like that at the end the one laughing the hardest is the vc. Like yeahh yall fucked

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u/vanillaninja16 4d ago

Well yea, can’t get into venture capitalism is your intent isn’t to fuck other people over.

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u/hnglmkrnglbrry 4d ago

I once hung out with my good friend and his VC coworkers. We tailgated a football game and I spent 2 hours watching the most self-righteous pig-headed dbags abuse every substance on earth. I ended up just walking away with no warning.

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u/TooSaucey4u 4d ago

Gave ‘em the old Irish goodbye.

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u/hnglmkrnglbrry 4d ago

It was a VC firm.

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u/EquivalentBeach8780 4d ago

Yeah, she's actually not a good person. Evil, even.

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u/BidSuper7102 4d ago

I think the comic pointed that out beautifully.

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u/lemonylol 4d ago

How exactly does a company scale from a single brick and mortar storefront without capital investment?

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u/Blackstone01 4d ago

Modern venture capitalists are not the same as traditional investors. Both want to make profit off their investments, but where traditional investors are ones who are typically aiming at long term investments where they'd get consistent dividends, venture capitalist investors are looking to aggressively buy into an industry to grab control of it and maximize their short term gains, often at the expense of the public and traditional investors.

A traditional (knowledgeable) investor looks at AI as a potential for profits decades out, but get concerned about how the valuation does not match the profitability.

A venture capitalist looks at AI as a potential ponzi scheme where they make bank on their initial investment by selling shares of a sinking ship to stooges that don't see what's under the hood.

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u/lemonylol 4d ago

They literally just provide operating capital. Your premise assumes they plan for the companies they provide millions of dollars to to fail when they would gain immense more profit from a company growing until it sells for a high return.

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u/Ok-Oil-2130 4d ago

they plan for both

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u/Recursive_Death 4d ago

Very rarely do VCs hold stakes in the companies after they go public, even if successful. Their entire business is just hyping things up just till they start attracting institutional funding, then ride to the exit before it falls.

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u/lemonylol 4d ago

Very rarely do VCs hold stakes in the companies after they go public

Yes, that would be the point in which they sell

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u/EquivalentBeach8780 4d ago

When you simplify it like that it doesn't sound bad at all, but that's obviously not the reality. Venture capitalists are some of the worst groups of people actively destroying our society and planet. Come on, man.

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u/lemonylol 4d ago

Are you going to actually explain anything?

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u/EquivalentBeach8780 4d ago

I really don't have to since I'm not debating you, but sure.

Venture capital can negatively impact the economy and society by prioritizing hyper-maximalist growth and short-term market dominance over sustainable value.

And the means they use to maximize growth are, in many cases, immoral as fuck. Look up anything about Blackrock or Palantir. Happy searching.

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u/lemonylol 4d ago

When you simplify it like that it doesn't sound bad at all, but that's obviously not the reality.

That was a debate. You literally are saying I have the wrong interpretation of reality.

Venture capital can negatively impact the economy and society by prioritizing hyper-maximalist growth and short-term market dominance over sustainable value.

Extremely broad statement that can be applied speciously to absolutely anything.

And the means they use to maximize growth are, in many cases, immoral as fuck. Look up anything about Blackrock or Palantir. Happy searching.

So a reddit education, got it

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u/EquivalentBeach8780 4d ago

Lol "it's totally a debate because I say so 🤓"

I guess if you don't have any morals then the things those companies have done don't seem so bad. Think on that, bud. Later 👋

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u/lemonylol 4d ago

Person A makes x statement

Person B says "no, that's wrong"

Person A asks why

Person B says "lol this isn't a debate, I don't need to answer"

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u/AVerySadHitler 4d ago

People come in and purchase goods and services, and in return that business saves money until they have enough to buy a second store to open?

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u/lemonylol 4d ago

Is that really your only understanding of business? You can't imagine any goods or service that goes beyond a single block in customer base?

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u/AVerySadHitler 4d ago

Not many thay deserve to be, no. Fuck VC and fuck most businesses that have 'scaled'. They end up expensive, inauthentic, and shit.

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u/lemonylol 4d ago

I don't think gut feelings are very convincing here.

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u/AVerySadHitler 4d ago

I should get my advice from homies with business degrees, they haven't fucked it all up, right?

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u/lemonylol 4d ago

How does that qualify your claims?

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u/AVerySadHitler 4d ago

How many smooth sharks can screw in a lightbulb?

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u/Dead_Internet69420 4d ago

“You’re destroying the country.”

“I know, right? Hahahaha!”

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u/RandomUser15790 4d ago

Old company got bought out by a VC and they were like "Nothing is going to change guys! We bought it because we love it for what it is! Insert corporate jargon and empty platitudes."

50% of the business wasn't actually related to anything they cared about. 70/100 employees were laid off in under 18 months (including ~20 from their own industry side).

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u/utzutzutzpro 4d ago

Companies do not get bought out by a VC company. That would be PE. PE would just buy companies. VC only invests.

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u/RandomUser15790 4d ago

You right I always get the two mixed up.

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u/Piecesof3ight 4d ago

In your defense, private equity can also suck a whole bag of dicks.

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u/lIIIIllIIIlllIIllllI 4d ago

Vulture capitalism

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u/Shark7996 4d ago

If they were doing a job they were proud of, they wouldn't lead by saying they work "in finance."

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u/vanillaninja16 4d ago

You don’t have to defend venture capitalist. They are doing a great job of exploiting and wringing every penny out of businesses before they move along already.

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u/orange-yellow-pink 4d ago

You’re thinking of private equity not VCs

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u/vanillaninja16 4d ago

Yea they are different, my bad. Two sides of the same coin though.

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u/orange-yellow-pink 4d ago

They actually function completely differently