"I think this is God’s gift to me to understand that I'm not investing you if your idea doesn't slap, HARD."<p><a href="https://www.parrot.vc/-Lv-_lL5xTiAl_dpthO7" rel="nofollow">https://www.parrot.vc/-Lv-_lL5xTiAl_dpthO7</a>
Parrot.vc is a bot trained on tens of thousands of VC tweets that uses predictive text to generate amazing, new startup advice. Share your favorites!<p>Gavin Belson - hit me up, this is the perfect acquisition for Hooli.<p>PS - you can follow Parrot.vc on Twitter as well (<a href="https://twitter.com/parrot_vc" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/parrot_vc</a>)
"With a powerful narrative, you should be able to go from raw materials to a launch ready vehicle in 60 days."<p>If this isn't the best sign of the times, idk what is.<p>Edit: This one killed me<p>"VC is hard. This is a great fucking deck..."
Okay, I've spent a little more time on this than I probably should have, but I think I realized something. The reason this works is mostly due to the VCs being generic in general. I've been reading the tweets they're based on and they're equally nonsense as the bot tweet. But bashing multiple tweets together, still produces something that's... coherent? I mean, yea, they're coherent. But it works because it lacks detail.<p>There's almost no detail or focus on a concrete idea in any of these VC tweets. Everything is so damn vague and abstract in the original tweets, they can apply to anything or anyone. Thus, chopping and mixing them is meaningless, because they are void of meaning to begin with... Sort of the same way horoscopes work. They're pretty broad and the reader fills in the gaps and details. VCs talk like old gypsy fortune tellers... they're vague, tell you roughly what you'd like to hear and are generally useless sacks of breathing meat...<p>Damn, that was a wild ride...
Capital is in such oversupply that you have to lock down the system from yourself to credibly tell customers you won't screw them over.<p><a href="https://www.parrot.vc/-Luq3q03hYSF0vm4mVUb" rel="nofollow">https://www.parrot.vc/-Luq3q03hYSF0vm4mVUb</a>
VC twitter is excruciatingly cringe. I cannot imagine giving equity to these virtue signaling parrots.* The worst offenders are the people who<p>- have never personally taken a company from zero to one (even worse: when they have internally taken a company from 1 to N, and think that qualifies them).<p>- have a huge portfolio full of incremental companies<p>- constantly talk about trends on Twitter<p>- constantly talk about politics on Twitter<p>- are not currently operating their own moonshot/Unicorn<p>- are a bit too ridiculous when trying to hide their own greed<p>- talk constantly about the importance of "mentoring" you, when really just wanting access to your company<p>- have never actually taken a hard stand/risk on anything in their entire lives<p>Imagine instead getting a small check from Elon Musk when he was operating at Tesla/SpaceX, or even from then-no-name Sam Altman when he was running Loopt (as Stripe did from both). These investors are great because you know they're going to soon step the fuck out of your way and focus on their own projects. They might also be able to actually help you when you need it (both parties respecting each other's scarce time).<p>* Exceptions: PG, Naval, and part-time VC partners that actively operate their own companies.
I clicked through like 15 of these and they were all pretty nonsensical. Not sure if this is more damning of tweets from VC's or the bot itself...
>I was trying to make a profit is pretty constraining. You have to satisfy customers or you go out of business. [1]<p>Hehe this one was pretty good.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.parrot.vc/-LuhxfJS6wU2jI7ulPj0" rel="nofollow">https://www.parrot.vc/-LuhxfJS6wU2jI7ulPj0</a> via @parrot_vc
"I stand with the people of China and that they need to hire researchers to design some new architecture, or anything extremely fancy."<p>This is amazing. Reminds me of the postmodernism generator: <a href="http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/" rel="nofollow">http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/</a>
"Trading legally on inside information is one of the most valuable places on the Internet."<p><a href="https://www.parrot.vc/-Lutw051bTJRl4uGlK0i" rel="nofollow">https://www.parrot.vc/-Lutw051bTJRl4uGlK0i</a>
-- wallstreetbets here I come!
"Canceling sneaky charges is one of the most predictable but consequential developments of the 2020s"[0]<p><i>Instantly</i> reminded of all of the posts about ISPs and cellular carriers tacking on all sorts of goofy fees and their usual monetary "practices", felt it was especially relevant now that some of those fees are being exposed as being BS surcharges anyway. Can't name any sources off the top of my head but there was an article here on HN about it some months ago.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.parrot.vc/-Lv6SAuk6w0OJpbhw22_" rel="nofollow">https://www.parrot.vc/-Lv6SAuk6w0OJpbhw22_</a>
It looks like it uses tweets that were a reply to another tweet. This makes some of them read weird since there is missing context. I wonder what it would look like if it only used tweets that were original.
Great, congrates, sounds like your bot is going to be the first computer program to demand worker's rights and protection from cruel and unusual punishment.<p>But seriously wanted to say it's pretty stellar and so far none of these seem "bot" like. They read pretty genuine... which says a lot of how idiotic a lot of these VCs are.
"I have nothing to do with startups but everything to do with my original statement."<p>Source:
<a href="https://www.parrot.vc/-LumCfM7z4sQiNiXMJIU" rel="nofollow">https://www.parrot.vc/-LumCfM7z4sQiNiXMJIU</a>
“My long-promised current view of what I want to be remembered, the guy who invented the crapper rule.”<p>... A rogue philosopher VC<p>“There’s nothing lean about spending 12-18 mo working hard to make a lot of money.“
Most of the ones I got looked like they were generated from replies to other tweets. The lack of context made them boring, even if that makes it easier to make them comprehensible. (I would love to see this experiment run on a dataset that filtered out reply tweets.)<p>But then, it have me this gem:<p>"It's sad when people don't understand the value of a program that targets them. I mean I do see the value, I just don't like floppy pizza."
Thank you for sharing this, some of these are pure gold.<p>This one is just fun<p>- "Sorkin is going to have a custom GIF library curated by @jposhaughnessy."<p>These sound like fodder for an insider trading prosecution:<p>- "Saved a man going into an interview with that. One of my favorite funds rn."<p>- "Amazing company. I was thinking more in terms of deploying, deleting, etc."<p>- "Canceling sneaky charges is one of the most predictable but consequential developments of the 2020s."<p>- "YC partners know, because they get around advertising, because a lot of material on this."<p>- "Could agree more. Have looked at a bunch of #rockstarninjas but ended up with a bigger bag of money they will leave you to secure the bag."
> Notice I didn't say the users had to use the fact that prior financings are used as comps for other financings.<p>Ingenious.<p>My favourite Markov chain is the one trained on Puppet documentation and the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
> It's sad when people don't understand the value of a program that targets them. I mean I do see the value, I just don't like floppy pizza.<p>This one made me laugh.
Ed: rm useless "bug" report.<p>oh lord.<p>> I believe that being more at peace in the present would have given me greater patience and ability to be more wordy in order to seem genuine?<p>A bot talking about how to seem more genuine. By being wordy, in an awkwardly long sentence. The irony burns. <a href="https://www.parrot.vc/-Lv4C1NRdxJrut8qiuK_" rel="nofollow">https://www.parrot.vc/-Lv4C1NRdxJrut8qiuK_</a>
> This will be one of the places technology is financed. But the future would be built somewhere else.<p>> But the software market is about to get a lot out of drug experimentation but I would recommend those who want to work will need to work.<p>Seems like overfitting a bit. But it's a super funny output.
A tweet with 26 separate inspirations: "Would love to hear a solution." (<a href="https://www.parrot.vc/-Luic4DYDS2sZZwQD5L-" rel="nofollow">https://www.parrot.vc/-Luic4DYDS2sZZwQD5L-</a>)<p>I feel like there are multiple layers to this
"I am now racking my brain to recall where I used to be a dissenter of highly remote teams. No more."<p><a href="https://www.parrot.vc/-LukH2OpIjNi3PhhChNI" rel="nofollow">https://www.parrot.vc/-LukH2OpIjNi3PhhChNI</a>
"I have nothing to do with startups but everything to do with my original statement."<p><a href="https://www.parrot.vc/-LumCfM7z4sQiNiXMJIU" rel="nofollow">https://www.parrot.vc/-LumCfM7z4sQiNiXMJIU</a>
Overtrained? This one just shows a snippet from the 3rd credited author. <a href="https://www.parrot.vc/-LuiS-9VuUs2-2aAPVKy" rel="nofollow">https://www.parrot.vc/-LuiS-9VuUs2-2aAPVKy</a>
> Good news to wake up to the fact that ISAs without safeguards are naturally regressive.<p>Hmm. Very interesting. Maybe we should in fact have more exceptions in the ISA and let there be more context switches to the kernel.
« Yes. The solution is not to be best at XY & Z, it's to continue to build a list of VC’s who are “next level” value add. »<p>This one was especially rich since it points to the genrator’s oncoming sentinence
This is great! Super similar to a project I put out 2 months ago: <a href="https://twitter.com/vctweetbot" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/vctweetbot</a>
Two favorites:<p>“Billionaires" has nothing to do with those who can’t graduate to higher wage jobs from that starting point.<p>50% of millennials want to be heard and appreciated.
> "if you have a 1000X returner, then that is still pretty good. VC is asymmetric. You don't try to get 9 out of 10."<p>Vaguely meaningful.
No, it didn't become VC, because it ain't giving me any moneys.<p>I even said "AI" and refreshed my bank account balance, but still nothing.
Ooh, this is interesting. Were all the VCs you used from outside the EU? Because this seems to contain personal data, names etc. and raises the interesting question of the compatibility of some ML with GDPR.
So lots of people in this thread that realize vcs are supercilious talking heads. Why does Paul graham, the blogger who claimed Microsoft is dead and that lisp , which btw is untyped and slower than maybe even Go, is a competitive badvantage get admiration? Is it just by the wannabes?