Created an account to say something about Wu's venture capital ambitions. In that incredibly catty podcast they did about the Samantha Bielefield, one of Wu's only contributions was to complain about how as a woman so many doors are closed to her that would be open to a man "with the same experience." She's also claiming she's in the middle of raising $23 million dollars in VC in the latest interview she did. She's full of shit.
She's been attempting to raise venture capital for more than a year now, and she's been stringing poor Anna Megill along who is supposed to be "director" of this project along for all that time. She had a patreon initially to try and cover her expenses, now her savings have run out and she's had to resort to temp jobs. I'm not sure why she still believes Wu is actually going to pay her at some point, but apparently she does.
The thing Wu is describing though is incredibly ambitious. Not only much better speech recognition and natural language processing than is currently available to the average programmer on the street, but analysis of intent and emotional content. Not even the top research labs have anything close to this. Wu isn't any sort of audio engineer, has no fucking clue about cutting edge AI, basically has no idea how to even start implementing her ideas. I can say with certainty that I'm an infinitely better software engineer that Wu, and I couldn't even prototype half the stuff she says she's going to do.
Nobody is going to take her business plan seriously. Her entire strategy seems to be that she has the great ideas, and if she's given millions of dollars she'll hire the little people to make that happen. Venture capital is for companies that have the demonstrated ability to deliver a thing, but need money to deliver it at scale or to bootstrap manufacturing. Wu has nothing but pie in the sky ideas, and anybody can have those.
The weird thing is that Giant Spacekat doesn't appear to have a plan B if they can't get this money. Wu can go on pretending indefinitely she's a game developer as long as Frank still has a job, but how long are Anna Megill and Amanda Warner going to put up with her delusions of grandeur? It's going to be interesting watching for the point when they finally get disillusioned. I expect that to happen sometime next year.