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📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: Bill Gates’ Daughter Says Her $185 Million AI Startup Will Suc

Against all odds, Phoebe Gates has managed to raise $35 million for a browser extension, despite the pernicious disadvantage of being Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates’ daughter.

In an episode of Yahoo Finance’s podcast Opening Bid Unfiltered, the younger Gates complained about the chip weighing on her shoulder, saying that she’s been determined to win over investors without rubbing her family dynasty in their face.

“I have a chip on my shoulder,” Gates said, adding that she wants “no ties to my privilege or my last name.”

Her company, Phia, just raised $35 million in capital, earning it an eye-watering valuation of $185 million. It’s pitched as an AI shopping extension that finds cheaper versions of things you’re looking for online — like a coupon code website that seeks out deals on your behalf.

“Our target consumer is a young woman who’s hustling,” Gates, who has presumably never experienced an actual financial incentive for thrifty shopping, told Fortune. “She shops like a genius, but she doesn’t want to waste her time doing it.”

The 23-year-old can’t seem to shake the chip metaphor.

“The chip on my shoulder is not only proving myself but building something, you know, novel and unique that consumers actually love,” she said.

As Fortune reports, none of the money for Phia came from Gates’ parents. Instead, she’s focusing entirely on outside capital. (The elephant in the room, of course, is her last name, which she hasn’t exactly taken pains to hide.)

Gates does at least partially demur to the fact that no billionaire is self-made: “From my dad I’ve really learned that your team is the core of what you’re building,” she said. “You can’t do anything without an incredible team.”

Still, privilege is more than just a cash injection at the launch of a startup. It takes many forms: elite education, a prestigious network, never having to worry about where your next rent check will come from, nevermind scoring deals as a backdoor way to buy favor with her dad.

While it’s an admirable gesture to wave off mom and dad’s fortune in the initial fundraising, investors can still take comfort in her name should the AI company fail. That would be the ultimate test — not whether Gates takes a handout during the honeymoon phase, but whether she can take a beating should things turn for the worst, without deploying her golden parachute. As with every other harebrained AI startup, time will tell.

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📌 MAROKO133 Update ai: Startup Generates Caring Letters to Your Friends Using AI,

Think back to the last time you peeled open an envelope to find a handwritten letter. Maybe it was a heartfelt thank-you message for attending someone’s wedding. Perhaps it was a note from a close friend traveling abroad. Whatever the reason, it feels good to get an actual letter in the mail, right?

Now, you may never experience that feeling again without a jolt of paranoid suspicion. Introducing Handwrytten, a young AI company oozing with corporate-twee, peddling in a Rube Goldberg machine of automation that produces handwritten notes with zero emotional or physical effort: a large language model produces the content, and then a proprietary robot inks it out onto stationary with unmatched “speed, quality, and realism.”

“In an age where we are all drowning in electronic communication, handwritten notes really stand out,” the company’s website reads, bragging that its robo-scrawl is “virtually indistinguishable from human writing.”

From what can be gathered on its website, Handwrytten is primarily a business offering bulk, handwritten letters to other businesses. As cynical a ploy as that may be, it makes sense — any single person human enough to appreciate a handwritten letter probably isn’t looking to automate the process.

Still, for those regular Joes who would like to expedite their letter-writing, Handwrytten offers three subscription tiers: silver, which comes with 24 cards a month for $100; gold, which comes with 50 cards a month for $198; and platinum, which comes with 100 cards a month for a whopping $378.

“I always want to send thank you cards, but I typically don’t get around to it,” a user identified as Sean McElhaney is quoted saying in the company’s testimonials. “Until now. Handwrytten makes it so simply to send thank you cards, I have it on autopilot!”

For that extra-personal touch, users can even upload their own handwriting into the forgery nexus, allowing the company’s robots to ape your chicken scratch. “After a one-time fee, your handwriting will be available wherever and however you use Handwrytten,” the AI company declares.

The company’s software even makes remembering birthdays a thing of the past, boasting that you can use its “special birthday automation system to never miss a birthday again!”

While Handwrytten might be the “overall leader in the handwritten notes space,” as it declares, it’s certainly not the only company of its kind. There are at least 10 other major competitors in the running, each with similarly-cloying names like “LettrLabs,” “Postable,” and “Cardly.”

Thanks to these bold innovators, consumers can now enjoy all the authenticity of a handwritten letter with the sheer market efficiency of a bulk email blast. Who doesn’t love progress?

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