Venture Capitalists

I know you’ll give me a shot because you’re bored.

I lost the notes on my Wing idea in an ipad-icloud sync. Tech is so unreliable to an engineer. My boy sent me an article about how a guy accidentally threw away the key to access his 8000 bitcoins back in 2013 and he managed to convince some venture capitalist to invest 17 mill to get back 170 mill worth of bitcoin. His plan is as ridiculous as my mechanical wing invention. He wants to buy two 75k spot robotic dogs (like mars rovers that have legs instead of wheels, way more beautiful but just as clueless) and use the other 17 million dollars to hire the Boston dynamic’s software team to program the bots to do what I can imagine is detect metal in the exact dimensions of a small hard drive through piles of garbage, send a different robot ( most likely a human (robotic moles don’t exist yet, I know, I worked on it in a quest to find life on Enceladus (mechanics is way more limited than software)) to dig up the piece of metal until they find the hard-drive, then he can pay another 10k to the god of tedium to copy all the fucked up microscopic memory onto a new hardrive until he gets his key back. A modern treasure hunt (if my boy is intent on internet-stalking me he’ll find me from that last bit of words/ or my voice will get buried by Google’s ad prioritizing search algorithm.)

I asked “do venture capitalists actually exist who are so blindly optimistic toward tech they’d invest millions of dollars into something like this?”

“Absolutely”

Nothing short of inspiring. I didn’t unlock my iphone for hours just so I could reread it over and over. I trust him. He analyzes people with money and their house of cards for a living. 

So, to the venture capitalists I’m about to accidentally run into…

I know you’ll give me a shot because you’re bored.

And you know nothing about the reality of tech.