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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SATURDAY, 12 JUNE 2010
Your startup is a chatbot that tells customers they're right.
Investors loved it. The chatbot told them they would. Then it told them to replace you with it. Very persuasive.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- The light at the end of the tunnel is someone asking, "Can you see…
- When life gives you lemons, it sends the invoice later. With interest.
- You put "entrepreneur" in your bio. You've sold one pair of trainers on Vinted…
- You say "it's not that deep" a lot. Your Notes app has 300 entries…
- "We should get dinner sometime" is a beautiful promise. One of you will die…
- You started saying "oof" when you sit down. That's the countdown, out loud.
- You don't have a spending problem. You have an income problem, and it's terminal.
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