Broke (brokevc)

What Debord could not have anticipated was a moment when the memory of the spectacle would itself become a product - sold back to us as simulation. Which brings us to Elon Musk, Grok Imagine, and the awkward, nostalgic return of Vine. https://www.thebrokevc.com/p/ai-vine-and-the-hollow-reboot-9c21

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TAM worship is startup phrenology. A ritual to make wild ideas seem safe. But every breakthrough began as something unmeasurable. https://www.thebrokevc.com/p/the-great-domestication-facb

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In 1300, moral authority came from bishops. In 1800, from philosophers. In 1950, from university chairs. In 2025, from whoever builds the foundational model. https://www.thebrokevc.com/p/tech-startups-are-the-new-moral-institutions-aaba

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Venture capital is the closest thing we have to medieval patronage. But instead of funding monasteries to preserve scripture, we fund 23-year-olds to build apps that make people read less.

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Venture capital is the belief that if you give $10 million to 25-year-olds with PowerPoints, one of them will reinvent money itself. This is rarely the case.

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This is what it looks like when the priests of a dying temple try to sell you incense. “Learn to use AI before AI replaces you” is the final prayer of coding bootcamps that realize they trained a generation to write code right before code started writing itself.

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you can clone code. you can copy features. you can’t duplicate real community. the best builders today are community architects: • they turn customers into creators • they turn fans into evangelists • they turn brands into tribes

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