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Comment by emestifs

10 months ago

Basically you can read that above article as: Hey Mark, we've got a bunch of our money riding on your stock going up, so make your stock go up. I know in the past (2010-2022) we wanted you to grow like crazy and throw money around and grow some more, but like now with interest rates not 0 anymore and stuff, we need you to like start making money and you know, make the stock go up and up. K, thanks, bye.

I found it funny because these are the same VC who spent a decade throwing money at anything with first Cloud, then ML/Deep Learning, then Blockchain, then threw money like no tomorrow during Covid, and now are like, yeah, we want you to not do any of that stuff anymore, just like actually make money now.

The '/s' is an indicator of sarcasm in text, you'll see it in online comments from time to time. Hard to convey sarcasm online otherwise.

And yes, as the other guy said, oh you're an AI company!? Here's a few million. We'll see how long that hype lasts for these "AI" startups.