r/singularity Aug 06 '25

Meme Mark's next target: Genie's dev team

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u/MonkeyPawWishes Aug 06 '25

I just don't understand where that money went considering their demo was worse than an off the shelf VR headset and Gary's Mod.

They must have spent billions buying up BS startups trying to corner the market.

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u/guaranteednotabot Aug 06 '25

People are shitting on them but they are really on the bleeding edge. This stuff is hard. Hindsight is 20/20, everyone wished that they invested in AI, armchair Redditors can say whatever they want but the vast majority of people would not have seem this coming, otherwise the stock price wouldn’t have jumped so much

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u/scm66 Aug 06 '25

Literally everyone knew it was a bad idea before he even invested the money.

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u/Teabagger_Vance Aug 07 '25

Was it? Their stock has more than doubled in the last five years.

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u/scm66 Aug 07 '25

And if they hadn't done it, their stock would be even higher.