She just wants to be treated like any other totally unqualified person whose mom gave her commencement speed and got handed 100 million dollars to start up a made up company.
That then told everyone about her company, that she doesn’t want any privilege in promoting, to her many followers.
The shopping assistant plugs into browsers like Chrome and Safari to compare prices and surface deals across tens of thousands of retail and resale sites in real time. It essentially serves as your own personal deal finder: Say you’re looking at a $200 dress from Anthropologie, Phia can find and compare prices at secondhand sellers to help customers find a better price.
Gates and Kianni first brainstormed startup ideas in their Stanford dorm room, cycling through concepts before landing on a consumer tool that included Gates’ interest in women’s empowerment (likely modeled after her own mother) and Kianni’s sustainability focus.
I don’t think a coupon tool that wastes excessive resources is either empowering or sustainable.
Reading this, I was reminded of how Nicolas Cage is part of the Coppola family but changed his name, I was told, so that he could “make it on his own.”
I looked that up and it turns out to be a complete lie. He actually changed his name to conceal the fact that he was not making it on his own.
From Wikipedia:
At age 15, he tried to convince his uncle, Francis Ford Coppola, to give him a screen test, telling him “I’ll show you acting.” His outburst was met with “silence in the car.”[20] By this stage of his career, Coppola had already directed Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Gene Hackman and Robert De Niro. Although early in his career Cage appeared in some of his uncle’s films, he changed his name to Nicolas Cage to avoid the appearance of nepotism as Coppola’s nephew. His choice of name was inspired by the Marvel Comicssuperhero Luke Cage and composer John Cage.[21][22]
how does changing his famous last name conceal that he was not making it on his own? what?
He was given roles in his uncles film because he was his nephew. The name change just swept this under the rug. He wanted to get the roles but not let anyone know he got them through favoritism.
“To avoid the appearance of nepotism” sounds exactly like making it his own. You seem to have misunderstood. Are you an LLM?
The appearance of nepotism.
Nicholas Coppola got cast by his uncle, when any random 15 year old aspiring actor would never stand a chance.
He then changes his name so that other people in Hollywood will (hopefully) not say “oh he got that part because he’s Coppola’s nephew,” even if he absolutely got that job because he’s Coppola’s nephew.
I’m not disputing that he got his first few roles due to his connections, but changing his name absolutely would have distanced him from his relatives in other directors’ eyes.
No it wouldn’t/didn’t, but it would/did to the masses.
You have misunderstood. He was in fact the beneficiary of nepotism: starting in his uncle’s films. But to keep this a secret, he changed his name. He was hiding the nepotism, not trying to avoid nepotism.
Walk a little more softly. You came off as confidently wrong there.
This is fucking worse than monarchy.
Pay your taxes or shut up.
She’s going to be another super villain in ten years isn’t she
I hope in 10 years we find out shes secretly a cyborg and meant that litterally, the prototype chip is on (in) her shoulder.
To be fair to whoever she is, it must have been impossible for them to not to have grown up completely bonkers out of touch. Not without some serious awesome parenting.
Which is why she did not.
They have no frame of reference whatsoever.
They’re out of their element! They’re like a child that wanders into the middle of a movie . . .
If it’s that much of a problem for her, perhaps she should consider making a name for herself in a completely different, non-computer related field, hiding her identity. Oh, you don’t want it to be that hard? Ok.
"Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.
Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a small prize. A very few hit the center bullseye and get a bigger prize. Rags to riches! The American Dream lives on.
Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves. Some keep going until they hit the center bullseye, then they give speeches or write blog posts about “meritocracy” and the salutary effects of hard work.
Poor kids aren’t visiting the carnival. They’re the ones working it."
What an awesome comparison.
no ties to my privilege
it’s an AI startup
$185 million
Something does not compute, in a Microslop sort of way.
“I have a chip on my shoulder,” she said, describing her drive to prove she can win over private equity in Silicon Valley based on merit, not inheritance or legacy …[T]he young founder hasn’t taken money from her parents for Phia. Instead, she’s insisted on raising outside capital even as some investors remain fixated on her personal life instead of her business venture.
I appreciate the sentiment, but it would be delusional to think her ability to “win over private equity” was divorced at all from her father’s legacy and last name. And actually, I’m not sure I appreciate the sentiment. In 2026, merit is way down the list, like scrawled sideways in the margins, of things that matter to private equity.
I asked copilot and it assured me this is all above board.
Wonder how much of her funding came from people who rape kids with her dad…
If she thinks she’s doing anything that her name doesn’t benefit, she’s fucking stupider than most AI ceos and that’s saying a lot.
Maybe even stupid enough to not know the reason her dad’s company took off is her grandparents worked for Xerox and just gave him a bunch of IP including the first computer mouse and a shit ton of money.
The Gates family is a nepo family, they’re just all too stupid to understand and legitimately think they have the same opportunities as anyone else.
If you ever listen to Behind the Bastards, then you’ll notice a pattern of emotional stunting in the growth of billionaires. The kids that have the money straight away, not the ones that really do make it themselves wherever they are.
Exemplar: Elon.
Though the imagery that sticks out in my mind is one of Zuckerberg playing mall ninja in his original office space, as the boss, walking around with a samurai sword and fake swiping at employees with it.
None of them make it themselves…
But they act like spoiled kids because that’s how everyone treats them, because at that level of wealth the only people you’re around will say whatever gets you to give them money.
It doesn’t take long before they forget how to be a normal human
People who talk to you like an AI bot. Maybe that’s why the AI talks that way. It’s all they know.
Never thought of that, but yeah…
Especially for Elon, it’s not just people in person, he bought twitter just to have his own echo chamber
When grok constantly glazes him, that’s what he thinks a normal person acts like. If it acts like a human would, Elmo can’t recognize it.
Think of how stupid the average AI CEO is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
Please no. My crushing despair at the state of the world meds for ignore at least one thing
Is this the same entitled bitch who got a $1,000,000 ranch as a present?
Maybe pay some fucking taxes, Phoebe.
To quote Pearl Jam:
Born on third,
Thinks (s)he got a triple.
An “AI shopping company”. Yes, that´s just what the world needs.
I can’t even decide what would be worse: AI-based shopping of general stuff, or shopping for AIs.
I think there is a huge market for an AI agent that will shop for the best deals for you. They could check for coupons, discount codes, etc…
And then the AI will just make up the discounts and coupon codes. What you really want is a simple, tuned search engine, like we’ve had for 30 years. Not generated content.
In the two days before it gets undermined by entrenched interests, yeah could be neat.
Please tell me this is a satirical nod towards Honey & Co.
Raised in a bubble she can’t see.
I have no doubt she’s at least as horrible as we all imagine.
“I have a chip on my shoulder” nice.
