I had a flash of inspiration this morning and realized that a pitch deck at the intersection of adtech, crypto, and LLMs ("We use the OpenAI API to design user-targeted ads for NFTs") could probably raise $X million in roughly the time it took me to finish brushing my teeth. I could get three friends together, write that deck, and probably be retired before my current startup manages to reach PMF.
Tech in 2023 is just mind-numbingly depressing. Thinking about throwing it all in and becoming a beet farmer, instead.