January Investor Updates ☃️
Hello, and Happy New Year! 🎉🪩🥂🧧🎊
It’s been close to 2 months since the previous company update and I’ve been hard at work bringing the internet into the modern era.
Current Projects
In December, I attended The AI Summit in New York, then turned around and spent the holidays in Los Angeles at Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood. I spent the better part of 2023 and 2024 caring for my dog Frogger who passed away in September 2024 after a long battle with cancer, so I’ve been working to reintegrate myself into society since.
I ended up pretty agoraphobic after a bad experience with a dogsitting app and ended up barely leaving the house for about a year. It has reshaped my entire worldview, hence why I launched Foundatixn Labs. (Now our reserved company name in California!) I think we have all built our trust networks entirely wrong in the modern world and we need to rethink how we relate to everyone in our lives. To do that, I need to empower every individual with an AI companion to show them around both the real world and the internet.
Once I understood my mission in this life, I realized how much false urgency I’d been operating under. I am now evaluating my next moves in life as what will leave my mark on this planet forever. I am planning a legacy rather than a family. I withdrew from the pointless hookup scene in 2022 and have now been celibate for close to 2.5 years. I would only consider sleeping with someone I’d want to marry. If I can’t find anyone matching that description in the next few years, I would consider surrogacy now and perhaps adoption later. Who knows? Why be selfish with your genetics and your ability to foster the youth?
My main concerns are keeping a roof over my head, keeping myself fed, and then running a business that will last forever and keep my bills paid. I’ve always been conflicted by wanting to do too many different things; I wanted to be a teacher, a writer, and a lawyer along the way as well. I decided many years ago that a traditional life was not for me, and I was not going to end up with a conventional-looking family. I spent years trying to blend in but eventually gave up and let myself stick out, hence my artist stint.
Now I’m back in the engineering world, and as always, the odds are good, but the goods are odd. I don’t have time to date right now and am not sure what to tell people to deflect the attention while I try to get this company started. I’d consider a surrogacy contract if the other party would buy me a house in San Francisco and pay my salary and healthcare for several years. I just don’t care, I already travelled the world while modelling, I don’t have time to live an Instagram girl life among all this as well.
Anyway.
Company Structure
Most startups in the Bay Area seek venture capital funding so they can quickly hire employees and get computing resources. I do not yet have an urgent need to hire any employees, and I have not extended any offers to potential co-founders. I need funding primarily for computing resources. I would like a salary as well, so we can bundle it all together.
You see, the world is clamoring for the Next Big Social Media Thing, and over the course of my career I have released all kinds of popular products worldwide - those are what informed the designs of the demos available on this website. I’m confident that a service that has been properly planned out and executed will pay for itself quickly. So then, I am seeking angel investment, but am not sure how many rounds of investment I’d be seeking after that. The timeline that I like best so far is that I’d like for my apps to be widely available by the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028. Under that timeline, I need to start developing the full versions of our planned apps by Q3 of this year, with services coming online throughout 2026 as I hire IT contractors for 24/7 availability.
I think some people see something different than I do. I don’t have any plans to hire any full-time employees. I don’t have to. I need a graphic designer for the art and IT staff for server availability. Both of those jobs can be contracted for the time being. Any commitments that outside parties make to me will be repaid with profit sharing, not with stock. I don’t plan to publicly list the company.
Albert Einstein said, “Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.” My apps will be self-funded with subscriptions and event management features. I am not nervous about growth because the user base will grow organically.
Other people are nervous because they live in debt. I only intend to do that for the shortest period of time necessary. If I could get the right surrogacy contract, it wouldn’t be necessary at all.
Investment Asks
Otherwise, I will need an initial investment of $500,000 - $1,000,000 for compute resources my personal salary, and contractor wages.
Recent Events
I have been out and about lately. Some recent events I’ve attended:
Dreamforce
Replit @ Tech Week
TechCrunch Disrupt
The AI Summit New York
SPIE Photonics West
Photos are up on my blog and X account.
Upcoming Events
I will be at the following upcoming events:
Founders’ Bay GigaParty - January 31, San Francisco
Tesla Full Self-Driving Demo and Workshop - February 2, San Francisco
HumanX 2025 - March 10 - 13, Las Vegas
Startup Grind Conference - April 29 - 30, Redwood City
Come say hi! See you soon 🖤
