I raised $2M for my AI startup in under 60 days at 21

[Ramieri]

This isn't a "how to make $300 from drop shipping/reselling" thread . If you're not genuinely trying to build something real, this probably isn't for you. Also if you're not high IQ deadass just stop reading here and value your time. But if you're one of the few people on this forum who actually has the drive to do something with their life, carry on. I'm not gonna gatekeep too much.

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- Why I Dropped Out of a T1 University -​

Search up Top CS schools, mine is there. I wasn't failing. In fact, I won every term project and hackathon my last semester there. I left on purpose.

Here's why: AI is going to eliminate 95% of software engineering jobs in due time. Not just software, but almost all white collar work in general. The genius CEO's I meet regularly know it too and couldn't care less. The remaining 5% of SWE roles are going to be no-life wageslaves grinding 80 hour weeks competing with a million other devs for scraps while AI does the work of entire engineering teams. Meanwhile the rest of the world will be dealing with unpredictable automation driven layoffs. I'm very confident in this vision of the future. It might seem obvious, yet when I look around no one is actually doing anything about this, and just lazily carrying on with their life hoping it will work out. If you don't want your wife leaving you in the future because you can't pay the bills, you need to take control of your own destiny.

So instead of sitting in lectures learning concepts that'll be obsolete before I graduate, I dropped out and decided I'm going to be the one the profiting off AI replacing the job market.

Less than 60 days later I had $2M in the bank from some of the most serious investors in tech. I already bought myself a motorcycle with their money and moved into a luxury 9k a month San Francisco apartment JFL. Billionaire angels who've built companies you've definitely heard of. Venture Capital Firms that carry worldwide prestige.

Due to industry giants like Anthropic and OpenAI's recent announcements, the fundraising opportunities are getting more difficult, but the rapidly closing window is still open.

Scaling AI for everyone

Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.

openai.com

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- How It Actually Happened (The Real Version) -​

Not gonna reveal what the company does or who the customers are for obvious reasons. But I'm gonna be more honest with you guys than I would be anywhere else because this is an alt and idgaf

● I barely wrote any of the code myself.
Maybe 5% of it. The rest? I found a solid open source repository that already did 80% of what I needed, forked it, built on top of it, and positioned the whole thing as our proprietary tech. Then polish and add in your own features with an AI tool of your choice. This is not some shameful secret — this is how the game works. Almost every startup you've heard of started by building on top of existing open source. The difference is whether you're smart enough to pick the right foundation and skilled enough to make it look like a product worth millions.

● Investors are not programmers.
This is the part nobody tells you. The people writing $500K+ checks are finance guys, ex-operators, former founders . They are not going to audit your GitHub. They care about three things: does it work, is there a market, and do they believe in you. That's it. I demo'd a working product, let my cofounders told a compelling story about the market, and closed. We talked to many investors and never got rejected once, and I never got grilled once on our technical setup. They were never going to dig into the codebase. Not once did anyone ask to see our repo. I'm not a great communicator and am nonverbal most days, so it's extremely important to get cofounders that cover your weaknesses. Do not do this alone you won't be able to hold yourself accountable in the long run and fundraising and building at the same time is almost impossible, even Y-Combinator encourages all the applicants to have at least one.

The Co-Founder Conundrum: Sam Altman's Guide to Startup Partnerships

In the high-stakes world of startups, few decisions matter more than choosing the right co-founder. Sam Altman—former president of Y Combinator and current CEO of OpenAI—has seen thousands of startups rise and fall. His insights are not just opinions; they are data-backed wisdom that can...

www.startupbell.net

● Sold to people who already spend money.
Our customers are enterprises that drop hundreds of thousands per engagement without thinking twice. If your business plan involves selling to broke consumers, especially if you're a dumbass building a study tool or dating app you're going to have a bad time. There's nothing worse than selling to a penny pincher, they're broke and will heavily scrutinize your product. Find problems that companies or wealthy buyers already pay to solve. Then solve it cheaper, better, and faster. Do not make a product or service that is a thin layer on top of an LLM giant like Anthropic. Your product will not exist in 2 years even if it seems like a good idea now.

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- What I'd Do If I Was 16 On This Forum Right Now -​

If you're young and on forums like this you 're sitting on a gold mine. Here's what actually matters:

● Schoolmaxx. Hard. Your GPA and SAT are literally your life right now.
I know this sounds like something your parents would say but hear me out. The only reason investors believed in me — a 21 year old with no track record — is because I had a T1 school on my resume. That credential alone bought me credibility I hadn't earned yet. If I went to an average state school, I would have stood zero chance. The absolute best case for a student at one of those is a job at Capital One or IBM, and you'd have to fight for even that. Barely even FAANG. Your school name is a cheat code for the rest of your life whether you use the degree or not. I dropped out and it still carries weight. Lock in on GPA and SAT scores like your future depends on it, because it genuinely does. If it means your looks are temporarily suboptimal to attain this, so be it.

● You don't need to "learn to code" in the traditional sense anymore.
Vibecoding is real. You can build functional products right now by sitting at your computer for 16 hours straight describing what you want to AI and iterating on the output. Many of us on this forum are already specialists at sitting in front of a screen for unhealthy amounts of time — congratulations, that's now a marketable skill. The barrier to building software has basically collapsed. The advantage goes to whoever has the most insane tolerance for sitting in a chair and grinding on a problem until it's solved. Just don't read this and start building a product thinking you're going to make it because you honestly won't, building your network needs to be done as well which is way more important and most pre seed startups don't even need a product to raise money, it's more about the people. I personally run multiple Claude Code terminals, and use cursor for fine tuning the UI. Be willing to bootstrap money for frontier models, I spent 2k on tokens before ever speaking to an investor.

● Stop consuming. Start producing.
Every hour you spend scrolling this forum reading about money is an hour you're not making any. The information game has diminishing returns. At some point you just have to go build the thing. One of my biggest regrets is spending 6000+ hours on Fortnite in high school. I became one of the best in North America and gained basically nothing in retrospect. Thoroughly evaluate how you spend your free time and fix that shit, especially if you have a friend group of bums, it's far better to be alone than surrounded by weak minded people.

● Make a LinkedIn.
Be careful it's very easy to be cringe here. If you make a substantial achievement share it here, otherwise just spam connection requests. My team didn't post once on here and were fine.

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- Looksmaxxing Update -​

Since this is .org I might as well. Got rated a split between HMTN and LHTN on here before on my main. Currently dating the most attractive girl at my entire university HHTB-SL and I say that with zero bias — multiple guys told me that independently before I even met her. Also helps that 90% of my uni was subhuman.

Here's what actually moved the needle for me out of everything I tried:

● Gymcelling — by far the highest ROI softmaxx. Nothing else comes close.
● Accutane — cleared my skin completely. Should be mandatory for anyone with even minor acne.
● Lifts — just don't use AF1's, get shoes like Blazers that cover your ankles so you can use 2.5 inch inserts and look natty. Also wear baggy pants that cover your ankles and it's 100% undetectable.
● Peptides — running CJC-1295 IPA no DAC, Semax, and GHK-Cu currently. CJC is the only one I've noticed a significant difference with.

I've tried basically everything else this forum recommends and I'll be honest — the basics above are really all that matter. 90% of the advanced stuff people obsess on here like lipmaxxing aren't worth the work compared to just being lean, having clear skin, and not being short.

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If you have questions drop them below — I'll come back and answer.

 

[YooLaFlame]

mirin effort
so you created an ai product/program using mostly ai and then convinced investors to invest into it?

 

[Ramieri]

mirin effort
so you created an ai product/program using mostly ai and then convinced investors to invest into it?

yeah I haven't typed out a single line of code myself, only been just AI tools. And used extenal AI platforms like ChatGPT to create plans and prompts to feed into the AI coding tools. Using your own brain in 2026 is troll.

 

[tut]

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This isn't a "how to make $300 from drop shipping/reselling" thread . If you're not genuinely trying to build something real, this probably isn't for you. Also if you're not high IQ deadass just stop reading here and value your time. But if you're one of the few people on this forum who actually has the drive to do something with their life, carry on. I'm not gonna gatekeep too much.

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- Why I Dropped Out of a T1 University -​

Search up Top CS schools, mine is there. I wasn't failing. In fact, I won every term project and hackathon my last semester there. I left on purpose.

Here's why: AI is going to eliminate 95% of software engineering jobs in due time. Not just software, but almost all white collar work in general. The genius CEO's I meet regularly know it too and couldn't care less. The remaining 5% of SWE roles are going to be no-life wageslaves grinding 80 hour weeks competing with a million other devs for scraps while AI does the work of entire engineering teams. Meanwhile the rest of the world will be dealing with unpredictable automation driven layoffs. I'm very confident in this vision of the future. It might seem obvious, yet when I look around no one is actually doing anything about this, and just lazily carrying on with their life hoping it will work out. If you don't want your wife leaving you in the future because you can't pay the bills, you need to take control of your own destiny.

So instead of sitting in lectures learning concepts that'll be obsolete before I graduate, I dropped out and decided I'm going to be the one the profiting off AI replacing the job market.

Less than 60 days later I had $2M in the bank from some of the most serious investors in tech. I already bought myself a motorcycle with their money and moved into a luxury 9k a month San Francisco apartment JFL. Billionaire angels who've built companies you've definitely heard of. Venture Capital Firms that carry worldwide prestige.

Due to industry giants like Anthropic and OpenAI's recent announcements, the fundraising opportunities are getting more difficult, but the rapidly closing window is still open.

Scaling AI for everyone

Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.

openai.com

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

- How It Actually Happened (The Real Version) -​

Not gonna reveal what the company does or who the customers are for obvious reasons. But I'm gonna be more honest with you guys than I would be anywhere else because this is an alt and idgaf

● I barely wrote any of the code myself.
Maybe 5% of it. The rest? I found a solid open source repository that already did 80% of what I needed, forked it, built on top of it, and positioned the whole thing as our proprietary tech. Then polish and add in your own features with an AI tool of your choice. This is not some shameful secret — this is how the game works. Almost every startup you've heard of started by building on top of existing open source. The difference is whether you're smart enough to pick the right foundation and skilled enough to make it look like a product worth millions.

View attachment 4760957

● Investors are not programmers.
This is the part nobody tells you. The people writing $500K+ checks are finance guys, ex-operators, former founders . They are not going to audit your GitHub. They care about three things: does it work, is there a market, and do they believe in you. That's it. I demo'd a working product, let my cofounders told a compelling story about the market, and closed. We talked to many investors and never got rejected once, and I never got grilled once on our technical setup. They were never going to dig into the codebase. Not once did anyone ask to see our repo. I'm not a great communicator and am nonverbal most days, so it's extremely important to get cofounders that cover your weaknesses. Do not do this alone you won't be able to hold yourself accountable in the long run and fundraising and building at the same time is almost impossible, even Y-Combinator encourages all the applicants to have at least one.

The Co-Founder Conundrum: Sam Altman's Guide to Startup Partnerships

In the high-stakes world of startups, few decisions matter more than choosing the right co-founder. Sam Altman—former president of Y Combinator and current CEO of OpenAI—has seen thousands of startups rise and fall. His insights are not just opinions; they are data-backed wisdom that can...

www.startupbell.net

● Sold to people who already spend money.
Our customers are enterprises that drop hundreds of thousands per engagement without thinking twice. If your business plan involves selling to broke consumers, especially if you're a dumbass building a study tool or dating app you're going to have a bad time. There's nothing worse than selling to a penny pincher, they're broke and will heavily scrutinize your product. Find problems that companies or wealthy buyers already pay to solve. Then solve it cheaper, better, and faster. Do not make a product or service that is a thin layer on top of an LLM giant like Anthropic. Your product will not exist in 2 years even if it seems like a good idea now.

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- What I'd Do If I Was 16 On This Forum Right Now -​

If you're young and on forums like this you 're sitting on a gold mine. Here's what actually matters:

● Schoolmaxx. Hard. Your GPA and SAT are literally your life right now.
I know this sounds like something your parents would say but hear me out. The only reason investors believed in me — a 21 year old with no track record — is because I had a T1 school on my resume. That credential alone bought me credibility I hadn't earned yet. If I went to an average state school, I would have stood zero chance. The absolute best case for a student at one of those is a job at Capital One or IBM, and you'd have to fight for even that. Barely even FAANG. Your school name is a cheat code for the rest of your life whether you use the degree or not. I dropped out and it still carries weight. Lock in on GPA and SAT scores like your future depends on it, because it genuinely does. If it means your looks are temporarily suboptimal to attain this, so be it.

● You don't need to "learn to code" in the traditional sense anymore.
Vibecoding is real. You can build functional products right now by sitting at your computer for 16 hours straight describing what you want to AI and iterating on the output. Many of us on this forum are already specialists at sitting in front of a screen for unhealthy amounts of time — congratulations, that's now a marketable skill. The barrier to building software has basically collapsed. The advantage goes to whoever has the most insane tolerance for sitting in a chair and grinding on a problem until it's solved. Just don't read this and start building a product thinking you're going to make it because you honestly won't, building your network needs to be done as well which is way more important and most pre seed startups don't even need a product to raise money, it's more about the people. I personally run multiple Claude Code terminals, and use cursor for fine tuning the UI. Be willing to bootstrap money for frontier models, I spent 2k on tokens before ever speaking to an investor.

● Stop consuming. Start producing.
Every hour you spend scrolling this forum reading about money is an hour you're not making any. The information game has diminishing returns. At some point you just have to go build the thing. One of my biggest regrets is spending 6000+ hours on Fortnite in high school. I became one of the best in North America and gained basically nothing in retrospect. Thoroughly evaluate how you spend your free time and fix that shit, especially if you have a friend group of bums, it's far better to be alone than surrounded by weak minded people.

● Make a LinkedIn.
Be careful it's very easy to be cringe here. If you make a substantial achievement share it here, otherwise just spam connection requests. My team didn't post once on here and were fine.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

- Looksmaxxing Update -​

Since this is .org I might as well. Got rated a split between HMTN and LHTN on here before on my main. Currently dating the most attractive girl at my entire university HHTB-SL and I say that with zero bias — multiple guys told me that independently before I even met her. Also helps that 90% of my uni was subhuman.

Here's what actually moved the needle for me out of everything I tried:

● Gymcelling — by far the highest ROI softmaxx. Nothing else comes close.
● Accutane — cleared my skin completely. Should be mandatory for anyone with even minor acne.
● Lifts — just don't use AF1's, get shoes like Blazers that cover your ankles so you can use 2.5 inch inserts and look natty. Also wear baggy pants that cover your ankles and it's 100% undetectable.
● Peptides — running CJC-1295 IPA no DAC, Semax, and GHK-Cu currently. CJC is the only one I've noticed a significant difference with.

I've tried basically everything else this forum recommends and I'll be honest — the basics above are really all that matter. 90% of the advanced stuff people obsess on here like lipmaxxing aren't worth the work compared to just being lean, having clear skin, and not being short.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━​

If you have questions drop them below — I'll come back and answer.

thoughts on AI agents such as clawdbot or google antigravity? genuinely got interest in this, LLM’s and automation is going to be the future. so, many of our skills we spent years learning is going to shit so i hear you on dropping out

i currently do cybersecurity, a lot of shit with this could be done with general knowledge and vibecoding

 

[Ramieri]

thoughts on AI agents such as clawdbot or google antigravity? genuinely got interest in this, LLM’s and automation is going to be the future. so, many of our skills we spent years learning is going to shit so i hear you on dropping out

i currently do cybersecurity, a lot of shit with this could be done with general knowledge and vibecoding

Both OpenAI and Anthropic already shipped security products - OpenAI has codex security (autonomous vuln scanner) and anthropic launched claude code security last month which literally nuked cybersecurity stocks, Crowdstrike dropped 8% in a day. Routine stuff like code scanning, vuln discovery, static analysis is getting automated by models that reason about code faster and better than any human researcher would. That said, the people who understand the domain AND can leverage ai tooling are gonna be the ones who make it, you just need to always learn the up-to-date best practices and not be shy about letting people know.

 

[AverageCurryEnjoyer]

whats your opinion on going for daytrading or stock investing. Crypto and options

 

[Ramieri]

whats your opinion on going for daytrading or stock investing. Crypto and options

Trading always struck me as a lazy way to try and make money. You're not actually doing anything besides sitting in your chair pressing buy and hoping some people who control everything decide your stock isn't on the chopping block. Crypto is too much of a gamble imo. Your whole investment can disappear because some guy tweeted or the government changed a rule.
My cofounder made a stock trading bot that makes him 14k every 2 weeks so I'd only recommend trading if you have an advanced algorithm to back yourself up. Otherwise you might as well go to the casino and put it all on black.

 

[AverageCurryEnjoyer]

Trading always struck me as a lazy way to try and make money. You're not actually doing anything besides sitting in your chair pressing buy and hoping some people who control everything decide your stock isn't on the chopping block. Crypto is too much of a gamble imo. Your whole investment can disappear because some guy tweeted or the government changed a rule.
My cofounder made a stock trading bot that makes him 14k every 2 weeks so I'd only recommend trading if you have an advanced algorithm to back yourself up. Otherwise you might as well go to the casino and put it all on black.

vibecode and backtest an advanced algorithm might becoem an option then.

could automate a good strategy to remove human bias cause a lot of the losses come from emotional trading

could you elaborate on the trading bot

 

[sick kunt31]

@Jason Voorhees


what u think?

 

[Throw_Away]

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This isn't a "how to make $300 from drop shipping/reselling" thread . If you're not genuinely trying to build something real, this probably isn't for you. Also if you're not high IQ deadass just stop reading here and value your time. But if you're one of the few people on this forum who actually has the drive to do something with their life, carry on. I'm not gonna gatekeep too much.

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- Why I Dropped Out of a T1 University -​

Search up Top CS schools, mine is there. I wasn't failing. In fact, I won every term project and hackathon my last semester there. I left on purpose.

Here's why: AI is going to eliminate 95% of software engineering jobs in due time. Not just software, but almost all white collar work in general. The genius CEO's I meet regularly know it too and couldn't care less. The remaining 5% of SWE roles are going to be no-life wageslaves grinding 80 hour weeks competing with a million other devs for scraps while AI does the work of entire engineering teams. Meanwhile the rest of the world will be dealing with unpredictable automation driven layoffs. I'm very confident in this vision of the future. It might seem obvious, yet when I look around no one is actually doing anything about this, and just lazily carrying on with their life hoping it will work out. If you don't want your wife leaving you in the future because you can't pay the bills, you need to take control of your own destiny.

So instead of sitting in lectures learning concepts that'll be obsolete before I graduate, I dropped out and decided I'm going to be the one the profiting off AI replacing the job market.

Less than 60 days later I had $2M in the bank from some of the most serious investors in tech. I already bought myself a motorcycle with their money and moved into a luxury 9k a month San Francisco apartment JFL. Billionaire angels who've built companies you've definitely heard of. Venture Capital Firms that carry worldwide prestige.

Due to industry giants like Anthropic and OpenAI's recent announcements, the fundraising opportunities are getting more difficult, but the rapidly closing window is still open.

Scaling AI for everyone

Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.

openai.com

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

- How It Actually Happened (The Real Version) -​

Not gonna reveal what the company does or who the customers are for obvious reasons. But I'm gonna be more honest with you guys than I would be anywhere else because this is an alt and idgaf

● I barely wrote any of the code myself.
Maybe 5% of it. The rest? I found a solid open source repository that already did 80% of what I needed, forked it, built on top of it, and positioned the whole thing as our proprietary tech. Then polish and add in your own features with an AI tool of your choice. This is not some shameful secret — this is how the game works. Almost every startup you've heard of started by building on top of existing open source. The difference is whether you're smart enough to pick the right foundation and skilled enough to make it look like a product worth millions.

View attachment 4760957

● Investors are not programmers.
This is the part nobody tells you. The people writing $500K+ checks are finance guys, ex-operators, former founders . They are not going to audit your GitHub. They care about three things: does it work, is there a market, and do they believe in you. That's it. I demo'd a working product, let my cofounders told a compelling story about the market, and closed. We talked to many investors and never got rejected once, and I never got grilled once on our technical setup. They were never going to dig into the codebase. Not once did anyone ask to see our repo. I'm not a great communicator and am nonverbal most days, so it's extremely important to get cofounders that cover your weaknesses. Do not do this alone you won't be able to hold yourself accountable in the long run and fundraising and building at the same time is almost impossible, even Y-Combinator encourages all the applicants to have at least one.

The Co-Founder Conundrum: Sam Altman's Guide to Startup Partnerships

In the high-stakes world of startups, few decisions matter more than choosing the right co-founder. Sam Altman—former president of Y Combinator and current CEO of OpenAI—has seen thousands of startups rise and fall. His insights are not just opinions; they are data-backed wisdom that can...

www.startupbell.net

● Sold to people who already spend money.
Our customers are enterprises that drop hundreds of thousands per engagement without thinking twice. If your business plan involves selling to broke consumers, especially if you're a dumbass building a study tool or dating app you're going to have a bad time. There's nothing worse than selling to a penny pincher, they're broke and will heavily scrutinize your product. Find problems that companies or wealthy buyers already pay to solve. Then solve it cheaper, better, and faster. Do not make a product or service that is a thin layer on top of an LLM giant like Anthropic. Your product will not exist in 2 years even if it seems like a good idea now.

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- What I'd Do If I Was 16 On This Forum Right Now -​

If you're young and on forums like this you 're sitting on a gold mine. Here's what actually matters:

● Schoolmaxx. Hard. Your GPA and SAT are literally your life right now.
I know this sounds like something your parents would say but hear me out. The only reason investors believed in me — a 21 year old with no track record — is because I had a T1 school on my resume. That credential alone bought me credibility I hadn't earned yet. If I went to an average state school, I would have stood zero chance. The absolute best case for a student at one of those is a job at Capital One or IBM, and you'd have to fight for even that. Barely even FAANG. Your school name is a cheat code for the rest of your life whether you use the degree or not. I dropped out and it still carries weight. Lock in on GPA and SAT scores like your future depends on it, because it genuinely does. If it means your looks are temporarily suboptimal to attain this, so be it.

● You don't need to "learn to code" in the traditional sense anymore.
Vibecoding is real. You can build functional products right now by sitting at your computer for 16 hours straight describing what you want to AI and iterating on the output. Many of us on this forum are already specialists at sitting in front of a screen for unhealthy amounts of time — congratulations, that's now a marketable skill. The barrier to building software has basically collapsed. The advantage goes to whoever has the most insane tolerance for sitting in a chair and grinding on a problem until it's solved. Just don't read this and start building a product thinking you're going to make it because you honestly won't, building your network needs to be done as well which is way more important and most pre seed startups don't even need a product to raise money, it's more about the people. I personally run multiple Claude Code terminals, and use cursor for fine tuning the UI. Be willing to bootstrap money for frontier models, I spent 2k on tokens before ever speaking to an investor.

● Stop consuming. Start producing.
Every hour you spend scrolling this forum reading about money is an hour you're not making any. The information game has diminishing returns. At some point you just have to go build the thing. One of my biggest regrets is spending 6000+ hours on Fortnite in high school. I became one of the best in North America and gained basically nothing in retrospect. Thoroughly evaluate how you spend your free time and fix that shit, especially if you have a friend group of bums, it's far better to be alone than surrounded by weak minded people.

● Make a LinkedIn.
Be careful it's very easy to be cringe here. If you make a substantial achievement share it here, otherwise just spam connection requests. My team didn't post once on here and were fine.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

- Looksmaxxing Update -​

Since this is .org I might as well. Got rated a split between HMTN and LHTN on here before on my main. Currently dating the most attractive girl at my entire university HHTB-SL and I say that with zero bias — multiple guys told me that independently before I even met her. Also helps that 90% of my uni was subhuman.

Here's what actually moved the needle for me out of everything I tried:

● Gymcelling — by far the highest ROI softmaxx. Nothing else comes close.
● Accutane — cleared my skin completely. Should be mandatory for anyone with even minor acne.
● Lifts — just don't use AF1's, get shoes like Blazers that cover your ankles so you can use 2.5 inch inserts and look natty. Also wear baggy pants that cover your ankles and it's 100% undetectable.
● Peptides — running CJC-1295 IPA no DAC, Semax, and GHK-Cu currently. CJC is the only one I've noticed a significant difference with.

I've tried basically everything else this forum recommends and I'll be honest — the basics above are really all that matter. 90% of the advanced stuff people obsess on here like lipmaxxing aren't worth the work compared to just being lean, having clear skin, and not being short.

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If you have questions drop them below — I'll come back and answer.

Marketing scheme from the slums of jakarta. provide a single piece of evidence for you having any recognition from any "big billionaire" name or the "2 million" you made in "2 months". otherwise nice larp good luck lil bro

 

[tastas]

bump

 

[Jason Voorhees]

@Jason Voorhees


what u think?

OP's thread is mostly water with also lot of exaggerations. It's hard to believe because he didn't give us any proof. Big raises like that always leave public traces. No cap tables, no crunch base nothing verifiable. I graduated from a tier 1 University myself and yes it does help a lot and is a bit of cheat code but investors are also not idiots. Them not checking part is what doesn't sit well with me. Like I'll publicly name one company I know

Agentic AI Agents for Enterprise CX and EX Automation

Enterprise AI agents powered by 15+ LLMs. Eliminates the trade-off between quality, cost and scale. Experience now.

yellow.ai

Yellow.ai. I knew about them and my uncle had a connection with one of the co founders Kishore Reddy, when we were living in Hyderabad. They started in 2016. And were initially yellow messanger app. You can look it all up. It's real and they raised more the $300 million dollars but notice their time line. Their series c came in 2021 almost 5 years after the startup was founded and then they pivoted to AI and then they took off and now headquartered in California. Years of building and product evolution before major capital came in. That's generally how serious enterprise startups look.

All the people involved were also from the top of the top universities. He himself is Stanford grad iirc. Like OP said enterprises that have a need for software don't do penny pinching that part is true but they are also the ones that probe the hardest. They might not
deep dive a solo dev's GitHub on day one but for anything north of low six figures into enterprise Al. There will be technical checks.

Forking an open source and adding new features is water everyone does this but investors before parking a significant amount always do their due diligence atleast the ones that are well known and successful. It's not even that hard. Vibe coding can only take you so far. People who actually understand software can tell very quickly when something is Al-generated, that becomes obvious once the product needs to scale or handle real workloads.

You can ask @Glorious King he showed me a screenshot of his assignment and I was immediately able to tell it was vibe coded and also warned him about vulnerabilities and bugs that might have been overlooked. You generally can pick it up in seconds when a human makes a mistake vs when an AI makes an mistake. They all fall into certain traps because all of the are probability engines trained on a corpus in the end.

AI can ofc build apps no one denies this but it's the security, reliability that is important. Can it pass the compliance standards SOC2 , ISO and GDPR that is the big question mark. All non negotiable before and enterprise deal and they have to ensure that you won't get them sued so it takes massive amount of documentation like 100+ policy documents and months of monitoring to pass them. Enterprises dropping millions don't just hand over a check, they put you through months of grueling procurement audits.

I could maybe believe a story like this during the 2023-2024 at the height of the Al bubble when everyone was going apeshit over AI and VCs were throwing money the second they saw Stanford and AI in the same sentence but in 2026 the market has matured a lot and pre seed investors look for defensible moats and raising $2M in under 60 days instantly clearing enterprise security audits as a 21 year old with no track record is slim. I mean it is possible but it would make OP an extreme outlier.


@Chadeep @topology @Menas @mcmentalonthemic

 

[sick kunt31]

OP's thread is mostly water with also lot of exaggerations. It's hard to believe because he didn't give us any proof. No cap tables, no crunch base nothing verifiable. I graduated from a tier 1 University myself and yes it does help a lot and is a bit of cheat code but investors are also not idiots. Them not checking part is what doesn't sit well with me. Like I'll publicly name one company I know

Agentic AI Agents for Enterprise CX and EX Automation

Enterprise AI agents powered by 15+ LLMs. Eliminates the trade-off between quality, cost and scale. Experience now.

yellow.ai

Yellow.ai. I knew about them and my uncle had a connection with one of the co founders Kishore Reddy, when we were living in Hyderabad. They started in 2016. And were initially yellow messanger app. You can look it all up. It's real and they raised more the $300 million dollars but notice their time line. Their series c came in 2021 almost 5 years after the startup was founded and then they pivoted to AI and then they took off and now headquartered in California. Years of building and product evolution before major capital came in. That's generally how serious enterprise startups look.

All the people involved were also from the top of the top universities. He himself is Stanford grad iirc. Like OP said enterprises that have a need for software don't do penny pinching that part is true but they are also the ones that probe the hardest. Forking an open source and adding new features is water everyone does this but investors before parking a significant amount always do their due diligence atleast the ones that are well known and successful. It's not even that hard. Vibe coding can only take you so far. People who actually understand software can tell very quickly when something is Al-generated, that becomes obvious once the product needs to scale or handle real workloads.

You can ask @Glorious King he showed me a screenshot of his assignment and I was immediately able to tell it was vibe coded and also warned him about vulnerabilities and bugs that might have been overlooked. You generally can pick it up in seconds when a human makes a mistake vs when an AI makes an mistake. They all fall into certain traps because all of the are probability engines trained on a corpus in the end.

AI can ofc build apps no one denies this but it's the security, reliability that is important. Can it pass the compliance standards SOC2 , ISO and GDPR that is the big question mark. It takes massive amount of documentation like 100+ policy documents and months of monitoring to pass them. Enterprises dropping millions don't just hand over a check, they put you through months of grueling procurement audits.

I could maybe believe a story like this during the 2023-2024 at the height of the Al bubble when everyone was going apeshit over AI and VCs were throwing money the second they saw Stanford and AI in the same sentence but in 2026 the market has matured a lot and pre seed investors look for defensible moats and raising $2M in under 60 days instantly clearing enterprise security audits as a 21 year old with no track record is slim. I mean it is possible but it would make OP an extreme outlier.


@Chadeep @topology @Menas @mcmentalonthemic

do people not understand how much is 2 million under 60 days really is


and I thought I was esoteric with 189 a hour

 

[sick kunt31]

bump

I'm scared to hop on

 

[Jason Voorhees]

OP's thread is mostly water with also lot of exaggerations. It's hard to believe because he didn't give us any proof. Big raises like that always leave public traces. No cap tables, no crunch base nothing verifiable. I graduated from a tier 1 University myself and yes it does help a lot and is a bit of cheat code but investors are also not idiots. Them not checking part is what doesn't sit well with me. Like I'll publicly name one company I know

Agentic AI Agents for Enterprise CX and EX Automation

Enterprise AI agents powered by 15+ LLMs. Eliminates the trade-off between quality, cost and scale. Experience now.

yellow.ai

Yellow.ai. I knew about them and my uncle had a connection with one of the co founders Kishore Reddy, when we were living in Hyderabad. They started in 2016. And were initially yellow messanger app. You can look it all up. It's real and they raised more the $300 million dollars but notice their time line. Their series c came in 2021 almost 5 years after the startup was founded and then they pivoted to AI and then they took off and now headquartered in California. Years of building and product evolution before major capital came in. That's generally how serious enterprise startups look.

All the people involved were also from the top of the top universities. He himself is Stanford grad iirc. Like OP said enterprises that have a need for software don't do penny pinching that part is true but they are also the ones that probe the hardest. They might not
deep dive a solo dev's GitHub on day one but for anything north of low six figures into enterprise Al. There will be technical checks.

Forking an open source and adding new features is water everyone does this but investors before parking a significant amount always do their due diligence atleast the ones that are well known and successful. It's not even that hard. Vibe coding can only take you so far. People who actually understand software can tell very quickly when something is Al-generated, that becomes obvious once the product needs to scale or handle real workloads.

You can ask @Glorious King he showed me a screenshot of his assignment and I was immediately able to tell it was vibe coded and also warned him about vulnerabilities and bugs that might have been overlooked. You generally can pick it up in seconds when a human makes a mistake vs when an AI makes an mistake. They all fall into certain traps because all of the are probability engines trained on a corpus in the end.

AI can ofc build apps no one denies this but it's the security, reliability that is important. Can it pass the compliance standards SOC2 , ISO and GDPR that is the big question mark. All non negotiable before and enterprise deal and they have to ensure that you won't get them sued so it takes massive amount of documentation like 100+ policy documents and months of monitoring to pass them. Enterprises dropping millions don't just hand over a check, they put you through months of grueling procurement audits.

I could maybe believe a story like this during the 2023-2024 at the height of the Al bubble when everyone was going apeshit over AI and VCs were throwing money the second they saw Stanford and AI in the same sentence but in 2026 the market has matured a lot and pre seed investors look for defensible moats and raising $2M in under 60 days instantly clearing enterprise security audits as a 21 year old with no track record is slim. I mean it is possible but it would make OP an extreme outlier.


@Chadeep @topology @Menas @mcmentalonthemic

@jeoyw9192 @iblamechico @BigBallsLarry

 

[mcmentalonthemic]

OP's thread is mostly water with also lot of exaggerations. It's hard to believe because he didn't give us any proof. Big raises like that always leave public traces. No cap tables, no crunch base nothing verifiable. I graduated from a tier 1 University myself and yes it does help a lot and is a bit of cheat code but investors are also not idiots. Them not checking part is what doesn't sit well with me. Like I'll publicly name one company I know

Agentic AI Agents for Enterprise CX and EX Automation

Enterprise AI agents powered by 15+ LLMs. Eliminates the trade-off between quality, cost and scale. Experience now.

yellow.ai

Yellow.ai. I knew about them and my uncle had a connection with one of the co founders Kishore Reddy, when we were living in Hyderabad. They started in 2016. And were initially yellow messanger app. You can look it all up. It's real and they raised more the $300 million dollars but notice their time line. Their series c came in 2021 almost 5 years after the startup was founded and then they pivoted to AI and then they took off and now headquartered in California. Years of building and product evolution before major capital came in. That's generally how serious enterprise startups look.

All the people involved were also from the top of the top universities. He himself is Stanford grad iirc. Like OP said enterprises that have a need for software don't do penny pinching that part is true but they are also the ones that probe the hardest. They might not
deep dive a solo dev's GitHub on day one but for anything north of low six figures into enterprise Al. There will be technical checks.

Forking an open source and adding new features is water everyone does this but investors before parking a significant amount always do their due diligence atleast the ones that are well known and successful. It's not even that hard. Vibe coding can only take you so far. People who actually understand software can tell very quickly when something is Al-generated, that becomes obvious once the product needs to scale or handle real workloads.

You can ask @Glorious King he showed me a screenshot of his assignment and I was immediately able to tell it was vibe coded and also warned him about vulnerabilities and bugs that might have been overlooked. You generally can pick it up in seconds when a human makes a mistake vs when an AI makes an mistake. They all fall into certain traps because all of the are probability engines trained on a corpus in the end.

AI can ofc build apps no one denies this but it's the security, reliability that is important. Can it pass the compliance standards SOC2 , ISO and GDPR that is the big question mark. All non negotiable before and enterprise deal and they have to ensure that you won't get them sued so it takes massive amount of documentation like 100+ policy documents and months of monitoring to pass them. Enterprises dropping millions don't just hand over a check, they put you through months of grueling procurement audits.

I could maybe believe a story like this during the 2023-2024 at the height of the Al bubble when everyone was going apeshit over AI and VCs were throwing money the second they saw Stanford and AI in the same sentence but in 2026 the market has matured a lot and pre seed investors look for defensible moats and raising $2M in under 60 days instantly clearing enterprise security audits as a 21 year old with no track record is slim. I mean it is possible but it would make OP an extreme outlier.


@Chadeep @topology @Menas @mcmentalonthemic

I skimmed his post and I'm 90% sure that he wrote it with AI

 

[ragingmanlet]

I skimmed his post and I'm 90% sure that he wrote it with AI

Yeah, the dude added emojis and bolded random shit to make it seem like it isn't AI.

Maybe your theory is..

 

[Glorious King]

OP's thread is mostly water with also lot of exaggerations. It's hard to believe because he didn't give us any proof. Big raises like that always leave public traces. No cap tables, no crunch base nothing verifiable. I graduated from a tier 1 University myself and yes it does help a lot and is a bit of cheat code but investors are also not idiots. Them not checking part is what doesn't sit well with me. Like I'll publicly name one company I know

Agentic AI Agents for Enterprise CX and EX Automation

Enterprise AI agents powered by 15+ LLMs. Eliminates the trade-off between quality, cost and scale. Experience now.

yellow.ai

Yellow.ai. I knew about them and my uncle had a connection with one of the co founders Kishore Reddy, when we were living in Hyderabad. They started in 2016. And were initially yellow messanger app. You can look it all up. It's real and they raised more the $300 million dollars but notice their time line. Their series c came in 2021 almost 5 years after the startup was founded and then they pivoted to AI and then they took off and now headquartered in California. Years of building and product evolution before major capital came in. That's generally how serious enterprise startups look.

All the people involved were also from the top of the top universities. He himself is Stanford grad iirc. Like OP said enterprises that have a need for software don't do penny pinching that part is true but they are also the ones that probe the hardest. They might not
deep dive a solo dev's GitHub on day one but for anything north of low six figures into enterprise Al. There will be technical checks.

Forking an open source and adding new features is water everyone does this but investors before parking a significant amount always do their due diligence atleast the ones that are well known and successful. It's not even that hard. Vibe coding can only take you so far. People who actually understand software can tell very quickly when something is Al-generated, that becomes obvious once the product needs to scale or handle real workloads.

You can ask @Glorious King he showed me a screenshot of his assignment and I was immediately able to tell it was vibe coded and also warned him about vulnerabilities and bugs that might have been overlooked. You generally can pick it up in seconds when a human makes a mistake vs when an AI makes an mistake. They all fall into certain traps because all of the are probability engines trained on a corpus in the end.

AI can ofc build apps no one denies this but it's the security, reliability that is important. Can it pass the compliance standards SOC2 , ISO and GDPR that is the big question mark. All non negotiable before and enterprise deal and they have to ensure that you won't get them sued so it takes massive amount of documentation like 100+ policy documents and months of monitoring to pass them. Enterprises dropping millions don't just hand over a check, they put you through months of grueling procurement audits.

I could maybe believe a story like this during the 2023-2024 at the height of the Al bubble when everyone was going apeshit over AI and VCs were throwing money the second they saw Stanford and AI in the same sentence but in 2026 the market has matured a lot and pre seed investors look for defensible moats and raising $2M in under 60 days instantly clearing enterprise security audits as a 21 year old with no track record is slim. I mean it is possible but it would make OP an extreme outlier.


@Chadeep @topology @Menas @mcmentalonthemic

Legit, getting funded by building ai agents that too vibe coded

This aint possible in the big '26

Like legit there's 100's of startups failing to secure funding after building their own custom agents with a team of like 10+ exp devs and graduated from tier 1 unis like waterloo etc

No wayyy in hell op could've achieved that via vibecoding


Tldr: I had a mini assignment which I completely vibecoded , @Jason Voorhees found out just by a glance and warned me bout errors

It took me solid 2 days to debug


Now imagine vibecoding a million dollar ai agent

 

[mcmentalonthemic]

Legit, getting funded by building ai agents that too vibe coded

This aint possible in the big '26

Like legit there's 100's of startups failing to secure funding after building their own custom agents with a team of like 10+ exp devs and graduated from tier 1 unis like waterloo etc

No wayyy in hell op could've achieved that via vibecoding


Tldr: I had a mini assignment which I completely vibecoded , @Jason Voorhees found out just by a glance and warned me bout errors

It took me solid 2 days to debug


Now imagine vibecoding a million dollar ai agent

>'million dollar' startup

>look inside

>a chat gpt prompt

 

[jeoyw9192]

@jeoyw9192 @iblamechico @BigBallsLarry

Appreciate the tag interesting thread

2 million in less than 2 months is very impressive (if not larp) if we are just using that as a comparison, for reference Perplexity got a little over $3.1 million in a month of founding although one of the founders and current CEO (Aravind Srinivas) was already a very successful AI researcher at the time and was prolly more experienced than OP (rn it's worth north of $20 billion).

Regardless as @Jason Voorhees noted the thread is mostly water info and recs, and also there isn't any particular proof provided either so I wouldn't trust this immediately. Nothing against OP just a disclaimer tbh cause big claims were made.

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This isn't a "how to make $300 from drop shipping/reselling" thread . If you're not genuinely trying to build something real, this probably isn't for you. Also if you're not high IQ deadass just stop reading here and value your time. But if you're one of the few people on this forum who actually has the drive to do something with their life, carry on. I'm not gonna gatekeep too much.

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- Why I Dropped Out of a T1 University -​

Search up Top CS schools, mine is there. I wasn't failing. In fact, I won every term project and hackathon my last semester there. I left on purpose.

Here's why: AI is going to eliminate 95% of software engineering jobs in due time. Not just software, but almost all white collar work in general. The genius CEO's I meet regularly know it too and couldn't care less. The remaining 5% of SWE roles are going to be no-life wageslaves grinding 80 hour weeks competing with a million other devs for scraps while AI does the work of entire engineering teams. Meanwhile the rest of the world will be dealing with unpredictable automation driven layoffs. I'm very confident in this vision of the future. It might seem obvious, yet when I look around no one is actually doing anything about this, and just lazily carrying on with their life hoping it will work out. If you don't want your wife leaving you in the future because you can't pay the bills, you need to take control of your own destiny.

So instead of sitting in lectures learning concepts that'll be obsolete before I graduate, I dropped out and decided I'm going to be the one the profiting off AI replacing the job market.

Less than 60 days later I had $2M in the bank from some of the most serious investors in tech. I already bought myself a motorcycle with their money and moved into a luxury 9k a month San Francisco apartment JFL. Billionaire angels who've built companies you've definitely heard of. Venture Capital Firms that carry worldwide prestige.

Due to industry giants like Anthropic and OpenAI's recent announcements, the fundraising opportunities are getting more difficult, but the rapidly closing window is still open.

Scaling AI for everyone

Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.

openai.com

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- How It Actually Happened (The Real Version) -​

Not gonna reveal what the company does or who the customers are for obvious reasons. But I'm gonna be more honest with you guys than I would be anywhere else because this is an alt and idgaf

● I barely wrote any of the code myself.
Maybe 5% of it. The rest? I found a solid open source repository that already did 80% of what I needed, forked it, built on top of it, and positioned the whole thing as our proprietary tech. Then polish and add in your own features with an AI tool of your choice. This is not some shameful secret — this is how the game works. Almost every startup you've heard of started by building on top of existing open source. The difference is whether you're smart enough to pick the right foundation and skilled enough to make it look like a product worth millions.

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● Investors are not programmers.
This is the part nobody tells you. The people writing $500K+ checks are finance guys, ex-operators, former founders . They are not going to audit your GitHub. They care about three things: does it work, is there a market, and do they believe in you. That's it. I demo'd a working product, let my cofounders told a compelling story about the market, and closed. We talked to many investors and never got rejected once, and I never got grilled once on our technical setup. They were never going to dig into the codebase. Not once did anyone ask to see our repo. I'm not a great communicator and am nonverbal most days, so it's extremely important to get cofounders that cover your weaknesses. Do not do this alone you won't be able to hold yourself accountable in the long run and fundraising and building at the same time is almost impossible, even Y-Combinator encourages all the applicants to have at least one.

The Co-Founder Conundrum: Sam Altman's Guide to Startup Partnerships

In the high-stakes world of startups, few decisions matter more than choosing the right co-founder. Sam Altman—former president of Y Combinator and current CEO of OpenAI—has seen thousands of startups rise and fall. His insights are not just opinions; they are data-backed wisdom that can...

www.startupbell.net

● Sold to people who already spend money.
Our customers are enterprises that drop hundreds of thousands per engagement without thinking twice. If your business plan involves selling to broke consumers, especially if you're a dumbass building a study tool or dating app you're going to have a bad time. There's nothing worse than selling to a penny pincher, they're broke and will heavily scrutinize your product. Find problems that companies or wealthy buyers already pay to solve. Then solve it cheaper, better, and faster. Do not make a product or service that is a thin layer on top of an LLM giant like Anthropic. Your product will not exist in 2 years even if it seems like a good idea now.

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- What I'd Do If I Was 16 On This Forum Right Now -​

If you're young and on forums like this you 're sitting on a gold mine. Here's what actually matters:

● Schoolmaxx. Hard. Your GPA and SAT are literally your life right now.
I know this sounds like something your parents would say but hear me out. The only reason investors believed in me — a 21 year old with no track record — is because I had a T1 school on my resume. That credential alone bought me credibility I hadn't earned yet. If I went to an average state school, I would have stood zero chance. The absolute best case for a student at one of those is a job at Capital One or IBM, and you'd have to fight for even that. Barely even FAANG. Your school name is a cheat code for the rest of your life whether you use the degree or not. I dropped out and it still carries weight. Lock in on GPA and SAT scores like your future depends on it, because it genuinely does. If it means your looks are temporarily suboptimal to attain this, so be it.

● You don't need to "learn to code" in the traditional sense anymore.
Vibecoding is real. You can build functional products right now by sitting at your computer for 16 hours straight describing what you want to AI and iterating on the output. Many of us on this forum are already specialists at sitting in front of a screen for unhealthy amounts of time — congratulations, that's now a marketable skill. The barrier to building software has basically collapsed. The advantage goes to whoever has the most insane tolerance for sitting in a chair and grinding on a problem until it's solved. Just don't read this and start building a product thinking you're going to make it because you honestly won't, building your network needs to be done as well which is way more important and most pre seed startups don't even need a product to raise money, it's more about the people. I personally run multiple Claude Code terminals, and use cursor for fine tuning the UI. Be willing to bootstrap money for frontier models, I spent 2k on tokens before ever speaking to an investor.

● Stop consuming. Start producing.
Every hour you spend scrolling this forum reading about money is an hour you're not making any. The information game has diminishing returns. At some point you just have to go build the thing. One of my biggest regrets is spending 6000+ hours on Fortnite in high school. I became one of the best in North America and gained basically nothing in retrospect. Thoroughly evaluate how you spend your free time and fix that shit, especially if you have a friend group of bums, it's far better to be alone than surrounded by weak minded people.

● Make a LinkedIn.
Be careful it's very easy to be cringe here. If you make a substantial achievement share it here, otherwise just spam connection requests. My team didn't post once on here and were fine.

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- Looksmaxxing Update -​

Since this is .org I might as well. Got rated a split between HMTN and LHTN on here before on my main. Currently dating the most attractive girl at my entire university HHTB-SL and I say that with zero bias — multiple guys told me that independently before I even met her. Also helps that 90% of my uni was subhuman.

Here's what actually moved the needle for me out of everything I tried:

● Gymcelling — by far the highest ROI softmaxx. Nothing else comes close.
● Accutane — cleared my skin completely. Should be mandatory for anyone with even minor acne.
● Lifts — just don't use AF1's, get shoes like Blazers that cover your ankles so you can use 2.5 inch inserts and look natty. Also wear baggy pants that cover your ankles and it's 100% undetectable.
● Peptides — running CJC-1295 IPA no DAC, Semax, and GHK-Cu currently. CJC is the only one I've noticed a significant difference with.

I've tried basically everything else this forum recommends and I'll be honest — the basics above are really all that matter. 90% of the advanced stuff people obsess on here like lipmaxxing aren't worth the work compared to just being lean, having clear skin, and not being short.

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If you have questions drop them below — I'll come back and answer.

Regardless though id be curious to know more about your discussions with "genius" CEOs any interesting insights that may only be accessible through such discussions and whatnot?

 

[tastas]

I'm scared to hop on

 

[Chadeep]

OP's thread is mostly water with also lot of exaggerations. It's hard to believe because he didn't give us any proof. Big raises like that always leave public traces. No cap tables, no crunch base nothing verifiable. I graduated from a tier 1 University myself and yes it does help a lot and is a bit of cheat code but investors are also not idiots. Them not checking part is what doesn't sit well with me. Like I'll publicly name one company I know

Agentic AI Agents for Enterprise CX and EX Automation

Enterprise AI agents powered by 15+ LLMs. Eliminates the trade-off between quality, cost and scale. Experience now.

yellow.ai

Yellow.ai. I knew about them and my uncle had a connection with one of the co founders Kishore Reddy, when we were living in Hyderabad. They started in 2016. And were initially yellow messanger app. You can look it all up. It's real and they raised more the $300 million dollars but notice their time line. Their series c came in 2021 almost 5 years after the startup was founded and then they pivoted to AI and then they took off and now headquartered in California. Years of building and product evolution before major capital came in. That's generally how serious enterprise startups look.

All the people involved were also from the top of the top universities. He himself is Stanford grad iirc. Like OP said enterprises that have a need for software don't do penny pinching that part is true but they are also the ones that probe the hardest. They might not
deep dive a solo dev's GitHub on day one but for anything north of low six figures into enterprise Al. There will be technical checks.

Forking an open source and adding new features is water everyone does this but investors before parking a significant amount always do their due diligence atleast the ones that are well known and successful. It's not even that hard. Vibe coding can only take you so far. People who actually understand software can tell very quickly when something is Al-generated, that becomes obvious once the product needs to scale or handle real workloads.

You can ask @Glorious King he showed me a screenshot of his assignment and I was immediately able to tell it was vibe coded and also warned him about vulnerabilities and bugs that might have been overlooked. You generally can pick it up in seconds when a human makes a mistake vs when an AI makes an mistake. They all fall into certain traps because all of the are probability engines trained on a corpus in the end.

AI can ofc build apps no one denies this but it's the security, reliability that is important. Can it pass the compliance standards SOC2 , ISO and GDPR that is the big question mark. All non negotiable before and enterprise deal and they have to ensure that you won't get them sued so it takes massive amount of documentation like 100+ policy documents and months of monitoring to pass them. Enterprises dropping millions don't just hand over a check, they put you through months of grueling procurement audits.

I could maybe believe a story like this during the 2023-2024 at the height of the Al bubble when everyone was going apeshit over AI and VCs were throwing money the second they saw Stanford and AI in the same sentence but in 2026 the market has matured a lot and pre seed investors look for defensible moats and raising $2M in under 60 days instantly clearing enterprise security audits as a 21 year old with no track record is slim. I mean it is possible but it would make OP an extreme outlier.


@Chadeep @topology @Menas @mcmentalonthemic

You can get 100 Million is less than a year only thing you need is based in Israel and Jew.

 

[Ramieri]

Marketing scheme from the slums of jakarta. provide a single piece of evidence for you having any recognition from any "big billionaire" name or the "2 million" you made in "2 months". otherwise nice larp good luck lil bro

Lighten up dude, maybe this will change your mind. There's obviously nothing I'm marketing or promoting lol. I've already given over a dozen people advice in DMs.

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[Ramieri]

OP's thread is mostly water with also lot of exaggerations. It's hard to believe because he didn't give us any proof. Big raises like that always leave public traces. No cap tables, no crunch base nothing verifiable. I graduated from a tier 1 University myself and yes it does help a lot and is a bit of cheat code but investors are also not idiots. Them not checking part is what doesn't sit well with me. Like I'll publicly name one company I know

Agentic AI Agents for Enterprise CX and EX Automation

Enterprise AI agents powered by 15+ LLMs. Eliminates the trade-off between quality, cost and scale. Experience now.

yellow.ai

Yellow.ai. I knew about them and my uncle had a connection with one of the co founders Kishore Reddy, when we were living in Hyderabad. They started in 2016. And were initially yellow messanger app. You can look it all up. It's real and they raised more the $300 million dollars but notice their time line. Their series c came in 2021 almost 5 years after the startup was founded and then they pivoted to AI and then they took off and now headquartered in California. Years of building and product evolution before major capital came in. That's generally how serious enterprise startups look.

All the people involved were also from the top of the top universities. He himself is Stanford grad iirc. Like OP said enterprises that have a need for software don't do penny pinching that part is true but they are also the ones that probe the hardest. They might not
deep dive a solo dev's GitHub on day one but for anything north of low six figures into enterprise Al. There will be technical checks.

Forking an open source and adding new features is water everyone does this but investors before parking a significant amount always do their due diligence atleast the ones that are well known and successful. It's not even that hard. Vibe coding can only take you so far. People who actually understand software can tell very quickly when something is Al-generated, that becomes obvious once the product needs to scale or handle real workloads.

You can ask @Glorious King he showed me a screenshot of his assignment and I was immediately able to tell it was vibe coded and also warned him about vulnerabilities and bugs that might have been overlooked. You generally can pick it up in seconds when a human makes a mistake vs when an AI makes an mistake. They all fall into certain traps because all of the are probability engines trained on a corpus in the end.

AI can ofc build apps no one denies this but it's the security, reliability that is important. Can it pass the compliance standards SOC2 , ISO and GDPR that is the big question mark. All non negotiable before and enterprise deal and they have to ensure that you won't get them sued so it takes massive amount of documentation like 100+ policy documents and months of monitoring to pass them. Enterprises dropping millions don't just hand over a check, they put you through months of grueling procurement audits.

I could maybe believe a story like this during the 2023-2024 at the height of the Al bubble when everyone was going apeshit over AI and VCs were throwing money the second they saw Stanford and AI in the same sentence but in 2026 the market has matured a lot and pre seed investors look for defensible moats and raising $2M in under 60 days instantly clearing enterprise security audits as a 21 year old with no track record is slim. I mean it is possible but it would make OP an extreme outlier.


@Chadeep @topology @Menas @mcmentalonthemic

Lol bro check proof. Don't blame you for being skeptical. I'm not able to publicly provide credentials or prior accomplishments for privacy reasons, which obviously made the thread seem crazy. DM me I can share u extra, it's important due to my circumstances that I don't doxx myself. I don't know any other pre-seed startups that have a Crunchbase in my circle so gonna have to disagree with u there. I already got SOC 2 Type 1 and I'm currently in the audit process of Type 2, wasn't going to mention stuff like that in my main thread because 99% of people reading it barely even would know how to code.

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[Ramieri]

I skimmed his post and I'm 90% sure that he wrote it with AI

Had Claude use memory to write and format most of it I have real world shit to do everyday not spending hours typing out a guide just for a bunch of Mumbai manlets to shit on it

 

[aids]

I skimmed his post and I'm 90% sure that he wrote it with AI

Yeh it's been paraphrased w AI.

 

[Ramieri]

Legit, getting funded by building ai agents that too vibe coded

This aint possible in the big '26

Like legit there's 100's of startups failing to secure funding after building their own custom agents with a team of like 10+ exp devs and graduated from tier 1 unis like waterloo etc

No wayyy in hell op could've achieved that via vibecoding


Tldr: I had a mini assignment which I completely vibecoded , @Jason Voorhees found out just by a glance and warned me bout errors

It took me solid 2 days to debug


Now imagine vibecoding a million dollar ai agent

I am one of the startups with 10 devs from a T1 uni lmfao. Vibe coding for you and me are not the same, it's corny but prompting has some serious levels to it. Claude Opus 4.6 is better than any engineer Anthropic has ever hired. It's a matter of feeding in the proper context and documentation to create thorough plans, then having it validate and ensure its changes are succeeding as it executes the plan, then thoroughly testing the result. If you aren't using them already you should look into plugins for Claude Code, which can aid with a lot of this, for example the superpowers plugin. If you don't want to believe it your loss I gain literally nothing wasting my time talking to haters like you.

 

[monk321]

took me solid 2 days to debug

exactly sounds like larp

 

[Ramieri]

Appreciate the tag interesting thread

2 million in less than 2 months is very impressive (if not larp) if we are just using that as a comparison, for reference Perplexity got a little over $3.1 million in a month of founding although one of the founders and current CEO (Aravind Srinivas) was already a very successful AI researcher at the time and was prolly more experienced than OP (rn it's worth north of $20 billion).

Regardless as @Jason Voorhees noted the thread is mostly water info and recs, and also there isn't any particular proof provided either so I wouldn't trust this immediately. Nothing against OP just a disclaimer tbh cause big claims were made.

Regardless though id be curious to know more about your discussions with "genius" CEOs any interesting insights that may only be accessible through such discussions and whatnot?

One of the more memorable ones was at dinner with an angel investor and a VC representative. They were saying how AI won't jus tbe displacing jobs, but also concentrating wealth upward at a velocity we've never seen. One of them said governments won't move fast enough to prevent the fallout. Given that they were the ones benefitting from this scenario they were the opposite of pessimistic when explaining it to me.

 

[Ramieri]

Your reality is so small that when someone shows you something outside of it, your first instinct is to call it a lie.
I shared a fraction of what I know and instead of extracting value from it, you couldn't get past your own disbelief. When I see someone doing better than me I study and admire them. Losers see a playbook and tell themselves it can't be real because accepting it would mean confronting how far behind they are. Stay where you are. I genuinely hope it works out for you.

exactly sounds like larp

 

[monk321]

Your reality is so small that when someone shows you something outside of it, your first instinct is to call it a lie.
I shared a fraction of what I know and instead of extracting value from it, you couldn't get past your own disbelief. When I see someone doing better than me I study and admire them. Losers see a playbook and tells themselves it can't be real because accepting it would mean confronting how far behind they are. Stay where you are. I genuinely hope it works out for you.

I'm usually not that person totally the opposite actually , but if it's true you're in the top 0,001% of guys so congrats , admitting it is it's not something easily replicable at all and you make it sound like it's easy to get 2M funded with your startup as a clueless 21 yr old just with ai inputs

 

[Chief Queef]

ok

 

[Glorious King]

I am one of the startups with 10 devs from a T1 uni lmfao. Vibe coding for you and me are not the same, it's corny but prompting has some serious levels to it. Claude Opus 4.6 is better than any engineer Anthropic has ever hired. It's a matter of feeding in the proper context and documentation to create thorough plans, then having it validate and ensure its changes are succeeding as it executes the plan, then thoroughly testing the result. If you aren't using them already you should look into plugins for Claude Code, which can aid with a lot of this, for example the superpowers plugin. If you don't want to believe it your loss I gain literally nothing wasting my time talking to haters like you.

i mean no offense brah, i too am an ai ml engineer infact im working in a startup funded by yc itself

so if you are legit ping me in pms, id be interested to know more bout y'all

obv i wont dox , since i would get banned

also for proof https://looksmax.org/threads/glorious-king-scored-a-high-paying-ml-job.1785504/#post-25186285

 

[Ramieri]

I'm usually not that person totally the opposite actually , but if it's true you're in the top 0,001% of guys so congrats , admitting it is it's not something easily replicable at all and you make it sound like it's easy to get 2M funded with your startup as a clueless 21 yr old just with ai inputs

thanks bhai was a lot of luck involved. also heavily undersold my background and accomplishments to not seem egotistical and for privacy reasons, it would make more sense if u knew me irl

 

[Luquier]

Tales from Mumbai

 

[Sprinkles]

Just use ai to make believable seeming products retard investors will think have some potential

Fucking shyster

Wouldn't be surprised if you were Indian

 

[Ramieri]

i mean no offense brah, i too am an ai ml engineer infact im working in a startup funded by yc itself

so if you are legit ping me in pms, id be interested to know more bout y'all

obv i wont dox , since i would get banned

also for proof https://looksmax.org/threads/glorious-king-scored-a-high-paying-ml-job.1785504/#post-25186285

congrats on the role yeah love to talk more. not able to start a conversation since I'm a grey can u shoot me a pm

 

[Ramieri]

Just use ai to make believable seeming products retard investors will think have some potential

Fucking shyster

Wouldn't be surprised if you were Indian

What's your hustle my man? You have to do crazy things to stand out nowadays. I worked 16 hours a day for months to make this happen. Step out of your comfort zone or accept that you'll be a nobody forever. I'm white if it makes you feel any better.

 

[Ramieri]

Tales from Mumbai

Posted my bank account with proof, scroll up

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Lol bro check proof. Don't blame you for being skeptical. I'm not able to publicly provide credentials or prior accomplishments for privacy reasons, which obviously made the thread seem crazy. DM me I can share u extra, it's important due to my circumstances that I don't doxx myself. I don't know any other pre-seed startups that have a Crunchbase in my circle so gonna have to disagree with u there. I already got SOC 2 Type 1 and I'm currently in the audit process of Type 2, wasn't going to mention stuff like that in my main thread because 99% of people reading it barely even would know how to code.

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Maybe tiny pre seed rounds between friends/family go unnoticed but in OP you mentioned $2M from "billionaire angels" and high profile VCs. Those VC backed ones get listed quickly, very often by founders themselves.

Just this month. Nyad raised $1.3M pre-seed and it went public on crunchbase within a few days

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nyad-a0d6

Vor Systems earlier this year. $3M pre seed also on crunch base and various other site s

https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/vor-systems-pre-seed--c6f2bbd4

Whenever there's institutional money involved it most of the time gets reported. And when there's big names involved within a few hours.

On SOC 2.Type 1. I've seen startups using Vanta/ Drata do it in 3-6 months maybe but for type 2 you need observation and review period which is 3 months minimum iirc. So you are saying you started evidence collection from day 1 since you say you are in the audit process rn. These timelines are bordering on impossible. Very hard to believe. Sure dm me. . Show me the redacted type 1 cover page or somethin. My dad is also a VC

 

[Ramieri]

Maybe tiny pre seed rounds between friends/family go unnoticed but in OP you mentioned $2M from "billionaire angels" and high profile VCs. Those VC backed ones get listed quickly, very often by founders themselves.

Just this month. Nyad raised $1.3M pre-seed and it public on crunchbase within a few days

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nyad-a0d6

Vor Systems earlier this year. $3M pre seed also on crunch base and various other site s

https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/vor-systems-pre-seed--c6f2bbd4

Whenever there's institutional money involved it most of the time gets reported.

On SOC 2.Type 1. I've seen startups using Vanta/ Drata do it in 3-6 months maybe but for type 2 you need observation and review period which is 3 months minimum iirc. So you are saying you started evidence collection from day 1 since you said in the audit process rn. Very hard to believe. Sure dm me. Show me the redacted type 1 cover page or somethin. My dad is also a VC

I highkey don't know how to dm can u start one? it says "This member limits who may view their full profile". The observation period is for SOC 2 type 2 is 3 months for us, and type 1 given in days once we finished our requirements lol. I'll send proof. I have weekly meetings with prospective T1 VC firms and a strong network I've never needed to make a crunchbase account, you're not required to anyway. Keep being big brain and calling cap I don't think people who actually know how the world works have 84,000 posts on a Looksmaxxing forum

 

[Jason Voorhees]

I highkey don't know how to dm can u start one? it says "This member limits who may view their full profile". The observation period is for SOC 2 type 2 is 3 months for us, and type 1 given in days once we finished our requirements lol. I'll send proof. I have weekly meetings with prospective T1 VC firms and a strong network I've never needed to make a crunchbase account, you're not required to anyway. Keep being big brain and calling cap I don't think people who actually know how the world works have 84,000 posts on a Looksmaxxing forum

You are aware that a SOC 2 Type 1 requires an actual audit by a CPA firm right?. A CPA firm does not turn around an enterprise grade audit in days. The auditor's review itself takes another 2-4 weeks. But sure I dmed you. Also yes I'm a rotter. Been here for 5 years but I know my shit. I've been offered cofounder roles aswell.

 

[Ramieri]

You are aware that a SOC 2 Type 1 requires an actual audit by a CPA firm right?. A CPA firm does not turn around an enterprise grade audit in days. The auditor's review itself takes another 2-4 weeks. But sure I dmed you. Also yes I'm a rotter. Been here for 5 years but I know my shit. I've been offered cofounder roles aswell.

Sent proof thanks for starting the convo. Surely you know all the looksmaxxing secrets already u should use the forum less and start putting that Oxford Study to work my wigga

 

[MacBurger]

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This isn't a "how to make $300 from drop shipping/reselling" thread . If you're not genuinely trying to build something real, this probably isn't for you. Also if you're not high IQ deadass just stop reading here and value your time. But if you're one of the few people on this forum who actually has the drive to do something with their life, carry on. I'm not gonna gatekeep too much.

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- Why I Dropped Out of a T1 University -​

Search up Top CS schools, mine is there. I wasn't failing. In fact, I won every term project and hackathon my last semester there. I left on purpose.

Here's why: AI is going to eliminate 95% of software engineering jobs in due time. Not just software, but almost all white collar work in general. The genius CEO's I meet regularly know it too and couldn't care less. The remaining 5% of SWE roles are going to be no-life wageslaves grinding 80 hour weeks competing with a million other devs for scraps while AI does the work of entire engineering teams. Meanwhile the rest of the world will be dealing with unpredictable automation driven layoffs. I'm very confident in this vision of the future. It might seem obvious, yet when I look around no one is actually doing anything about this, and just lazily carrying on with their life hoping it will work out. If you don't want your wife leaving you in the future because you can't pay the bills, you need to take control of your own destiny.

So instead of sitting in lectures learning concepts that'll be obsolete before I graduate, I dropped out and decided I'm going to be the one the profiting off AI replacing the job market.

Less than 60 days later I had $2M in the bank from some of the most serious investors in tech. I already bought myself a motorcycle with their money and moved into a luxury 9k a month San Francisco apartment JFL. Billionaire angels who've built companies you've definitely heard of. Venture Capital Firms that carry worldwide prestige.

Due to industry giants like Anthropic and OpenAI's recent announcements, the fundraising opportunities are getting more difficult, but the rapidly closing window is still open.

Scaling AI for everyone

Today we’re announcing $110B in new investment at a $730B pre money valuation. This includes $30B from SoftBank, $30B from NVIDIA, and $50B from Amazon.

openai.com

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- How It Actually Happened (The Real Version) -​

Not gonna reveal what the company does or who the customers are for obvious reasons. But I'm gonna be more honest with you guys than I would be anywhere else because this is an alt and idgaf

● I barely wrote any of the code myself.
Maybe 5% of it. The rest? I found a solid open source repository that already did 80% of what I needed, forked it, built on top of it, and positioned the whole thing as our proprietary tech. Then polish and add in your own features with an AI tool of your choice. This is not some shameful secret — this is how the game works. Almost every startup you've heard of started by building on top of existing open source. The difference is whether you're smart enough to pick the right foundation and skilled enough to make it look like a product worth millions.

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● Investors are not programmers.
This is the part nobody tells you. The people writing $500K+ checks are finance guys, ex-operators, former founders . They are not going to audit your GitHub. They care about three things: does it work, is there a market, and do they believe in you. That's it. I demo'd a working product, let my cofounders told a compelling story about the market, and closed. We talked to many investors and never got rejected once, and I never got grilled once on our technical setup. They were never going to dig into the codebase. Not once did anyone ask to see our repo. I'm not a great communicator and am nonverbal most days, so it's extremely important to get cofounders that cover your weaknesses. Do not do this alone you won't be able to hold yourself accountable in the long run and fundraising and building at the same time is almost impossible, even Y-Combinator encourages all the applicants to have at least one.

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● Sold to people who already spend money.
Our customers are enterprises that drop hundreds of thousands per engagement without thinking twice. If your business plan involves selling to broke consumers, especially if you're a dumbass building a study tool or dating app you're going to have a bad time. There's nothing worse than selling to a penny pincher, they're broke and will heavily scrutinize your product. Find problems that companies or wealthy buyers already pay to solve. Then solve it cheaper, better, and faster. Do not make a product or service that is a thin layer on top of an LLM giant like Anthropic. Your product will not exist in 2 years even if it seems like a good idea now.

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- What I'd Do If I Was 16 On This Forum Right Now -​

If you're young and on forums like this you 're sitting on a gold mine. Here's what actually matters:

● Schoolmaxx. Hard. Your GPA and SAT are literally your life right now.
I know this sounds like something your parents would say but hear me out. The only reason investors believed in me — a 21 year old with no track record — is because I had a T1 school on my resume. That credential alone bought me credibility I hadn't earned yet. If I went to an average state school, I would have stood zero chance. The absolute best case for a student at one of those is a job at Capital One or IBM, and you'd have to fight for even that. Barely even FAANG. Your school name is a cheat code for the rest of your life whether you use the degree or not. I dropped out and it still carries weight. Lock in on GPA and SAT scores like your future depends on it, because it genuinely does. If it means your looks are temporarily suboptimal to attain this, so be it.

● You don't need to "learn to code" in the traditional sense anymore.
Vibecoding is real. You can build functional products right now by sitting at your computer for 16 hours straight describing what you want to AI and iterating on the output. Many of us on this forum are already specialists at sitting in front of a screen for unhealthy amounts of time — congratulations, that's now a marketable skill. The barrier to building software has basically collapsed. The advantage goes to whoever has the most insane tolerance for sitting in a chair and grinding on a problem until it's solved. Just don't read this and start building a product thinking you're going to make it because you honestly won't, building your network needs to be done as well which is way more important and most pre seed startups don't even need a product to raise money, it's more about the people. I personally run multiple Claude Code terminals, and use cursor for fine tuning the UI. Be willing to bootstrap money for frontier models, I spent 2k on tokens before ever speaking to an investor.

● Stop consuming. Start producing.
Every hour you spend scrolling this forum reading about money is an hour you're not making any. The information game has diminishing returns. At some point you just have to go build the thing. One of my biggest regrets is spending 6000+ hours on Fortnite in high school. I became one of the best in North America and gained basically nothing in retrospect. Thoroughly evaluate how you spend your free time and fix that shit, especially if you have a friend group of bums, it's far better to be alone than surrounded by weak minded people.

● Make a LinkedIn.
Be careful it's very easy to be cringe here. If you make a substantial achievement share it here, otherwise just spam connection requests. My team didn't post once on here and were fine.

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- Looksmaxxing Update -​

Since this is .org I might as well. Got rated a split between HMTN and LHTN on here before on my main. Currently dating the most attractive girl at my entire university HHTB-SL and I say that with zero bias — multiple guys told me that independently before I even met her. Also helps that 90% of my uni was subhuman.

Here's what actually moved the needle for me out of everything I tried:

● Gymcelling — by far the highest ROI softmaxx. Nothing else comes close.
● Accutane — cleared my skin completely. Should be mandatory for anyone with even minor acne.
● Lifts — just don't use AF1's, get shoes like Blazers that cover your ankles so you can use 2.5 inch inserts and look natty. Also wear baggy pants that cover your ankles and it's 100% undetectable.
● Peptides — running CJC-1295 IPA no DAC, Semax, and GHK-Cu currently. CJC is the only one I've noticed a significant difference with.

I've tried basically everything else this forum recommends and I'll be honest — the basics above are really all that matter. 90% of the advanced stuff people obsess on here like lipmaxxing aren't worth the work compared to just being lean, having clear skin, and not being short.

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If you have questions drop them below — I'll come back and answer.

Mirin but rn my life is a mess, kicked out of college (UK) and 18 no coding experience except basic python, and not enough qualifications to go to uni 🫩

 

[Ramieri]

Mirin but rn my life is a mess, kicked out of college (UK) and 18 no coding experience except basic python, and not enough qualifications to go to uni 🫩

All good plenty of people make it big without degrees. Be sure to spend this time building up lore and accumulating knowledge instead of rotting.

 

[MacBurger]

All good plenty of people make it big without degrees. Be sure to spend this time building up lore and accumulating knowledge instead of rotting.

Thing is I lowk do wanna go to university, idk bru idk where to start with ts im broke and have a Lltb gf as a hmtn/LHTN I mean at least her parents are somewhat rich (she’s an international exchange student from China)

 

[Ramieri]

Thing is I lowk do wanna go to university, idk bru idk where to start with ts im broke and have a Lltb gf as a hmtn/LHTN I mean at least her parents are somewhat rich (she’s an international exchange student from China)

If you made it and had prime Adriana Lima hit on u would u switch up on her? If yes, you should be putting all your energy into building yourself into the man who can pull the woman of your dreams, instead of having a chuzz drain hours from your precious youth. Respectfully if you're LHTN rn don't settle and hold yourself back with comfort, you should envision a version of yourself where you'd have hardmaxxed already, and consider the type of girl he could pull.

 

[key]

Less than 60 days later I had $2M in the bank from some of the most serious investors in tech.

I call bullshit on this. How did you scale enough in 60 days to convince any "serious" VC or angel to invest??? If you provide the name of your startup its easy enough to verify. To be clear I'm not saying it can't be done, but from your post I can absolutely tell that you're lying.

 

[MacBurger]

If you made it and had prime Adriana Lima hit on u would u switch up on her? If yes, you should be putting all your energy into building yourself into the man who can pull the woman of your dreams, instead of having a chuzz drain hours from your precious youth. Respectfully if you're LHTN rn don't settle and hold yourself back with comfort, you should envision a version of yourself where you'd have hardmaxxed already, and consider the type of girl he could pull.

Good point her grandfather is a ceo for a massive company in china

 

[Chadethnic101]

OP's thread is mostly water with also lot of exaggerations. It's hard to believe because he didn't give us any proof. Big raises like that always leave public traces. No cap tables, no crunch base nothing verifiable. I graduated from a tier 1 University myself and yes it does help a lot and is a bit of cheat code but investors are also not idiots. Them not checking part is what doesn't sit well with me. Like I'll publicly name one company I know

Agentic AI Agents for Enterprise CX and EX Automation

Enterprise AI agents powered by 15+ LLMs. Eliminates the trade-off between quality, cost and scale. Experience now.

yellow.ai

Yellow.ai. I knew about them and my uncle had a connection with one of the co founders Kishore Reddy, when we were living in Hyderabad. They started in 2016. And were initially yellow messanger app. You can look it all up. It's real and they raised more the $300 million dollars but notice their time line. Their series c came in 2021 almost 5 years after the startup was founded and then they pivoted to AI and then they took off and now headquartered in California. Years of building and product evolution before major capital came in. That's generally how serious enterprise startups look.

All the people involved were also from the top of the top universities. He himself is Stanford grad iirc. Like OP said enterprises that have a need for software don't do penny pinching that part is true but they are also the ones that probe the hardest. They might not
deep dive a solo dev's GitHub on day one but for anything north of low six figures into enterprise Al. There will be technical checks.

Forking an open source and adding new features is water everyone does this but investors before parking a significant amount always do their due diligence atleast the ones that are well known and successful. It's not even that hard. Vibe coding can only take you so far. People who actually understand software can tell very quickly when something is Al-generated, that becomes obvious once the product needs to scale or handle real workloads.

You can ask @Glorious King he showed me a screenshot of his assignment and I was immediately able to tell it was vibe coded and also warned him about vulnerabilities and bugs that might have been overlooked. You generally can pick it up in seconds when a human makes a mistake vs when an AI makes an mistake. They all fall into certain traps because all of the are probability engines trained on a corpus in the end.

AI can ofc build apps no one denies this but it's the security, reliability that is important. Can it pass the compliance standards SOC2 , ISO and GDPR that is the big question mark. All non negotiable before and enterprise deal and they have to ensure that you won't get them sued so it takes massive amount of documentation like 100+ policy documents and months of monitoring to pass them. Enterprises dropping millions don't just hand over a check, they put you through months of grueling procurement audits.

I could maybe believe a story like this during the 2023-2024 at the height of the Al bubble when everyone was going apeshit over AI and VCs were throwing money the second they saw Stanford and AI in the same sentence but in 2026 the market has matured a lot and pre seed investors look for defensible moats and raising $2M in under 60 days instantly clearing enterprise security audits as a 21 year old with no track record is slim. I mean it is possible but it would make OP an extreme outlier.


@Chadeep @topology @Menas @mcmentalonthemic

Preston how are you these days long time no speak- whats changed have you ascended looks wise? i see your very successful in your career and very wealthy now? you live in US now? Congrats proud of you bro!!!