We've entered the "bond villain" era of VC startups

Someone tried to recruit me back in 2000 for a startup that would sell a box you connect to your computer allowing you to smell things over the internet. I'll let you guess what industry he was targeting.

	▲	wildzzz 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Ah yes, the best part of human intimacy: the smells!
	▲	roysting 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Was it ... Musk?

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ben_w 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That was some time ago. Musk himself tweeted about getting a volcano lair in 2015.

	▲	fragmede 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		2014 was the inflection point. 2013 brought us the term unicorn for companies, and was just long enough after the iphone that we were starting to make sense of it. That's when Elon Musk became a household name thanks to Tesla and SpaceX. Then there was Palantir. Google bought Deepmind in 2014. Google Facebook Amazon and Apple showed founders that software startups could transform the world, and the world leapt at the chance.