The Barbenheimer Guide to Startup Funding

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A two-panel meme contrasting startup presentations with reality using the 'Barbenheimer' trend. The top panel, labeled 'The Pitch Deck,' shows Barbie waving over her perfect, vibrant pink world, symbolizing a flawless, optimistic business plan. The bottom panel, labeled 'Due Dilligence,' shows a stark image of Oppenheimer standing before a fiery, apocalyptic explosion, representing the intense, often brutal, scrutiny of technical and financial vetting that can uncover harsh truths and destroy the initial illusion. The meme humorously equates the idealized pitch with the fantasy of Barbie's world and the rigorous, revealing due diligence process with the destructive power and gravitas of the atomic bomb's creation

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The pitch deck promises a serverless, infinitely scalable microservices architecture. Due diligence finds a single, monolithic Perl script running on a Raspberry Pi under the founder's desk

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The pitch deck promises a serverless, infinitely scalable microservices architecture. Due diligence finds a single, monolithic Perl script running on a Raspberry Pi under the founder's desk
Anonymous

Pitch deck: “Cloud-native, auto-scaling, SOC2-ready.” Due diligence: one t2.micro running MySQL as root - “I am become red flag, destroyer of valuations.”
Anonymous

The pitch deck promises "We're building the Uber of X" but due diligence reveals you're actually building the WeWork of technical debt with Theranos-level unit economics
Anonymous

Every CTO knows this feeling: the pitch deck shows a scalable microservices architecture with 99.99% uptime, but due diligence reveals a monolithic PHP app running on a single EC2 instance that hasn't been patched since 2019, held together by cron jobs and prayers. The technical debt isn't just a line item - it's the entire balance sheet, and that 'proprietary AI algorithm' is actually just a series of nested if-statements that would make any senior engineer weep
Anonymous

Pitch deck: AI-native, multi-cloud, zero-downtime. Due diligence: single-AZ RDS, a t3.small named prod-final-final, and deploys are scp in a cronjob
Anonymous

Pitch deck: “serverless AI microservices at scale”; due diligence: one t3.nano running a cron‑driven monolith, Terraform state in prod, and SOC2 “in progress” since 2019
Anonymous

Pitch deck: 'Kubernetes-native, serverless microservices utopia.' Due diligence: A Heroku dyno running a 2015 Rails monolith with god objects everywhere
@Hollow_Arigo 2y

Fuck, don't get it
1. @S247Art 2y
  
  Everything is 'sunshine and roses' when enthusiastic startup owners talk about their wonderful product that will change the world. However, it can look like complete and utter nuclear fallout when you get your hands dirty to examine the financials or analyze the market.
  
  @Hollow_Arigo 2y
  
  Thanks bro
@s2504s 2y

Call the explanatory squad, please
@callofvoid0 2y

the pitch deck ? Due dilligence ? wtf ?
@callofvoid0 2y

wait a minute
@qtsmolcat 2y

You must be internet explorer. NFTs have basically no value anymore.
1. @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  Any crypto-stuff have basically no value, and never had.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  cryptocurrencies do hold value. today, 400€, tomorrow 50¢
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  They do not hold value. They can represent value of something valuable. But there is no internal value in crypto itself, which is also true for any classic currency.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  all value is just human interpretation, bread in itself is worthless if there's no human to appreciate and/or eat it.
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  Yes, but currency is the next level of abstraction. There is some underlying value for 1kg of aluminum, but for 1 dollar or 1 euro or 1 bitcoin this underlying value is zero.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  no, not really. it's all just interpretation by humans
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  We talking about what exactly you try to interpret in particular case. 1kg of lead can be used irl for something, 1btc or 1usd cannot be used because they do not exist. Currency is a fiction in a sense.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  lead can be used to make stuff money can be used to buy stuff bread can be used to not die it's all still just humans valuing stuff because they can do something with it
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  exchange != use. You can't directly use something that doesn't exist. You cannot seriously compare 1 liter of gasoline and a piece of paper with the inscription “1 liter of gasoline” and at the same time say that their value is equally determined.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  I can't use a raw sheet of metal either
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  nor gasoline, for that matter, since I don't own a car. They're still worth the same to me as for everyone else.
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  You can definitely use it, even if you don't know how. The 1000 ways to use it directly follows from the fact of its existence. The fact that you are stupid and don’t know what to do with it doesn’t change the essence. 1 dollar does not exist in reality. A piece of paper with the inscription "1 dollar" carries as much value as a piece of paper with the inscription "1 kilogram". Money is just a symbol for something really valuable. It's just an IOU that you will be able to get what you need in the future.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  I can use the paper as a paper fan too if you insist, but that's not really worth as much, no? I can use an expensive surgical-grade scalpel to cut onions, but it's gonna do a worse job than a regular kitchen knife, yet it holds more value than one because I can give it to a surgeon. This is how money works, except it's better for trading because that's pretty much all you can do with it, unlike a surgical knife, which does have mildly different values for a surgeon and for me, since giving it to the surgeon requires effort.
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  Ah how about coupons ?
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  we talking about what is valuable, and what is representing a value as a proxy.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  being valuable in proxy is still being valuable
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  no, that's a big difference
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  as different as a mammal and a pig. they aren't the same, but a pig is a mammal.
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  You're wrong. You don't see the difference between a virtual, imaginary thing and a real product that can be used. Goods and resources without money actually work the same way, it’s just inconvenient to exchange them directly. Money without goods does not work at all.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  obv, and gas without cars doesn't work either. Everything needs context to work, and money only works in a society
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  fortunately, we do have a society, therefore money is valuable in it
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  Not really. There was a case in Russia in 1997 when they destroyed 99.9% of all rubles. And nothing has changed, because... the value of money is zero. Any amount of money can be printed or destroyed without affecting the economy.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  that's so hilariously untrue, it's incredible. never heard of printing money?
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  I saw this personally: prices became 1000 times lower, and salaries also became 1000 times lower. Nothing fundamentally has changed. No one became poorer, no one became richer. The destroyed money was worth nothing, just as freshly printed money is worth nothing. It is simply a metaphor for goods, resources and services. And it’s the same with all other currencies and cryptocurrencies - by themselves they are worth nothing.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  tell that to venezuela
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  The Venezuelan economy is suffering from sanctions imposed by the United States.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  the russian economy is suffering from barely existing
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  besides, this is just basic supply and demand: if you destroy 99% of cheese, bread is still gonna be worth the same, but cheese is gonna be worth more, so in an exchange, you'd have to pay less cheese to get bread.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  but that's ignoring all the funky economics and stuff that happens because humans try to predict stuff, so money works slightly differently, and inflation (AND deflation) can cripple an economy like nothing else
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  To create 1 million dollars you need to spend negligible resources - this can be done in 3 clicks on a computer, just a bank transfer from “nowhere” to the recipient’s account. Not a big deal. To create 1 million kilograms of cheese you need an excessive amount of resources, energy and labor. This cannot be done immidietly, and it certainly cannot be repeated indefinitely.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  to create 1 million dollars, you first have to get past the US gov, which takes much more resources than creating 1 million kg of cheese I'd say.
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  I was talking about US gov (and any other gov basically), and how they “print” money. Most of the money is not printed in the literal sense of the word - it is simply transferred from account to account, then issued in the form of loans, then spent from a card, etc. It's just a numbers in bank's datacenter.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  and? That doesn't make them less valuable
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  By my opinion it makes them zero-valuable.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  the medium doesn't affect the value
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  the value of what? they do not exist.
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  value is a human construct money is a human construct money has value. end of discussion
  
  @AlexKart20129 2y
  
  money has no it's own value money can only represent value of something really valuable looks like you don't understand the meaning of "valuable"
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  two can play at that game: I think you mean useful and not valuable
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  although it can be argued that money is useful as well, so nevermind
  
  @mekosko 2y
  
  > Any amount of money can be printed or destroyed without affecting the economy. This is obviously wrong
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  I think this is where the discussion ends. You brought some good points before, but this is just… idiotic.
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  I guess it's an obvious thing money is the way you transfer value of things or work by itself it has no value by the things you can exchange with money it becomes valuable if something is worth being exchanged with money , so it's valuable the absolute value of something is determined by need and availability
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  you can use 1usd to make a temporary fire
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  what is the second currency that you mentioned ?
  
  @RiedleroD 2y
  
  …cents?
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  oh thanks
  
  @endisn16h 2y
  
  lmao i like ur emoji
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  🥴 there you go

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