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by mattanimation 1229 days ago
I worked with the Co-Founder (Ben Lamm) at Chaotic Moon and Hypergiant. If I've learned anything from the past, it's that this is likely not the future.

The pattern is: find a hot topic, hire Maven to make a nice website, raise on hype, find an exit or get booted.

I don't doubt the team actually working on things is talented. I hope they can pull it off.

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Yeah, Ben is really good at riding the hype wave, not so much at executing for the long term, so the question is who’s running operations over there. I’d love to see “de-extinction” happen, but I’m going to need to be convinced that this will be any more practical or realistic than those Chaotic Moon SXSW tech demos.
> hire Maven to make a nice website

Well, that worked from me. I did not dig into the "how" (yet), but I immediately said to myself "wow, nice layout and general design"

Yeah like underground hyperloops or your self-driving car earning you passive income as a taxi. The game is to inspire and get heavy subsidization