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Ed Zitron the PR man?

My rules for naming:

Rules for naming a startup

1. Easy to pronounce 2. Easy to spell 3. Easy to remember 4. As few syllables as possible 5. .com unless very good reason otherwise 6. Related to the product/service

Calen.com would be a no go if it were me because it violates rules 1,2,3 and 6.

I’d go with something like habitkeeper.com which is only $2.5k.

The high stock price directly signals the power of compounding. If you split it down to $10 per share the lesson of buying and holding is lost.

Working on solving writer’s block at copy.ai using GPT-3. We’ll be launching tools specifically for writers soon. Some of our users have already mentioned to us that our current tools solved their writers block. I suspect we might be underestimating the impact of a huge stochastic language model on human communication.

Only 1x liq pref in this case.

I’m the founder of copy.ai, a GPT-3 app that generates short form marketing copy. We have paying users already who find it helpful.

Yes exactly! He prefaced his presentation by saying the purpose of it is to attract the more talent. That’s the right move but by definition it will be very promotional in order to convey a vision for engineering things that are physically possible but face significant engineering hurdles.

To get this technology to work as envisioned will require hundreds of technical breakthroughs across many fields.

Tiger Global led the Series E round in June at a $500m post-money valuation. That means they get a 2x in a few months. This looks like it will be a fantastic exit for employees too!

I spent some time researching carbon credit providers and what I found was the the only way they have to distribute credits is through online advertising. That means that they have to spend multiples of the actual wholesale credit costs on ads just to sell them.

By my estimate, Cool Effect spends around 3-4x of the actual credit costs on marketing related expenses. This is publicly available through their 990 filing.

https://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/475/475068...

I inquired from credit wholesalers about large volume pricing and found that the actual cost is less than $3/ton of CO2e. For an average US consumer with a 20 ton carbon footprint, that would come out to $60/year or $5/mo if sold at cost. To me this is a no-brainer for anyone that wants to be carbon neutral immediately.

I'm setting up a carbon credit buying club where we can get them at wholesale prices. My goal is to sell them right at cost in a radically transparent way where members provide all the marketing we need. If anyone here is interested in joining, you can email me at paul@carbonspace.com.

Hi OP, I'm Paul. I'm solving climate change and I'd like for you to join me.

I've set up a public benefit corporation, CarbonSpace.org. Just a landing page at the moment, but I've signed up friends and family while in private beta and the run rate with this group alone is already above 4m pounds of CO2 annually (more than just carbon neutral). We're doing it by lowering our carbon footprint as efficiently as possible while at the same time funding methane gas projects that reduce emissions on an industrial scale. The first milestone for the network is 10m lbs, which we'll hit in a few months.

Hit me up if interested.[paul]{@}[carbonspace][.][org]