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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

6 months ago, I raised 500k from a16z @speedrun to build The Promenade Studios - where we build the video games that were not possible before AI. Since then, we've built the best AI-powered video game in the world. Here's my full, unedited demo day pitch.

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Harvey Michael Pratt

6 months

pov: saturday night in vegas and you’re accelerating

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just remembered this happened to me last year lmfao

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4 months

The (unofficial) e/acc movie watchlist Her (2013) The Imitation Game (2014) The Zero Theorem (2013) The Social Network (2010) Primer (2004) Silent Running (1972) War Games (1983) Oppenheimer (2023) Blade Runner (1982) Ghost in the Shell (1995) Iron Man (2008) Ex Machina (2014)…

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The (unofficial) e/acc video game playlist: Factorio (2016) Deus Ex (1999) Kerbal Space Program (2015) Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty (2001) Stellaris (2016) System Shock 2 (1999) NieR:Automata (2017) Cyberpunk 2077 (2023) Minecraft (2009) Space Engineers (2013)…

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Harvey Michael Pratt

4 months

let’s fucking GO

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3 months

guys it fucking happened the game is finally fun like really fun

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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

What if Character AI was an RPG? Our AI RPG, The Promenade, is entering early access! Watch our trailer to learn how the game works, what a Worldseed is - and how to win one! We have 100 alpha keys - follow, like, and comment to get access! More info on the project: 🧵

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Harvey Michael Pratt

1 year

What is @freenft_xyz ? For collectors: - we show only FREE projects - all mints through our interface are GUARANTEED to be mintable and SAFE For projects: - A beautiful launchpad - Built-in distribution tooling to grow your community And we're building so much more...

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Harvey Michael Pratt

16 days

wait wait wait so in new york i can just walk outside and go eat at midnight? like every day? what the fuck what the fuck what the FUCK

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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

my most toxic trait is that i've really internalized that i have 5 years to escape the permanent underclass. sure, everyone will be cozy and everything will be abundant - but you'll just know you didn't make it. forever.

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Harvey Michael Pratt

4 months

READ ACCELERANDO READ SNOWCRASH READ PERMUTATION CITY READ THE CULTURE READ BLINDSIGHT READ CRYPTONOMICON READ READ READ READ READ

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Harvey Michael Pratt

3 months

The Promenade is a new type of video game - a hybrid MMORPG / social network populated with AI agents. We've raised $500k from @a16zGames Speedrun. Join our waitlist now for alpha access! I'm so excited to finally drop our announcement video - and a lot more soon!

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2 months

possibly the horniest text i’ve ever received

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most amazing airchat discovery is the linkedin crowd actually talk like that

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13 days

it’s 2024 and you claim to be a serious founder - but you won’t move here. why? scared of some tweets you saw?

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28 days

we did it gamers

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4 months

The (unofficial) e/acc science fiction reading list Selection Criteria: - Deals explicitly with e/acc themes: computation, cognition, capital, physics, biology, nanotech etc. - AI is not regarded with naked hostility (sorry, Dune!) The whole list, followed by reviews👇🏻

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Harvey Michael Pratt

4 months

should i drop e/acc science fiction reading list?

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Harvey Michael Pratt

1 month

The Promenade Isekai Update - our biggest yet! Sign in to our AI video game with X - and get an AI character with your face and personality. But the Isekai Update doesn't end there - check our hype video for a 1-minute rundown. You can Isekai yourself at the link in my bio!

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Harvey Michael Pratt

1 month

i see how it is

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Sam Altman

1 month

movies are going to become video games and video games are going to become something unimaginably better

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2 months

smart casual has been achieved internally

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4 months

real founder archetypes i’ve seen (no names): The Messiah The Charmer The Maniac The Cockroach The Alien The Lemur The Cynic The Founder Possessed By Ungovernable Rage The Grifter The Ninja The Mistake

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Harvey Michael Pratt

3 months

my two cofounders + myself are all 10x engineers to my understanding this means we get to skip the next 27 hires

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2 months

demo: delivered ✅

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1 month

friday night and we cookin

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Harvey Michael Pratt

4 months

The (unofficial) e/acc science fiction reading list: Accelerando (2005) - Charles Stross Permutation City (1994) - Greg Egan Snow Crash (1992) - Neal Stephenson Neuromancer (1984) - William Gibson Remembrance of Earth's Past (2008-10) - Liu Cixin The Diamond Age (1995) - Neal…

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Harvey Michael Pratt

11 days

amazing how much some people hate kids. watching a lady, maybe 40, as i eat. she’s performatively wincing every time this nearby kid (maybe 8) is so much as audible. he’s not even being badly behaved! she’s scanning the room, trying to commiserate. what causes this?

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Harvey Michael Pratt

9 days

this is the platonic video game you may not like it, but this is what the market approaches thru gradient descent

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4 months

soft announce i guess

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30 days

We launched Promenade Isekai and you kept asking for one thing: the Promenade Theme Song in full! So not only are we sharing it, but to say thank you every single Promenade Isekai character to date is in it. There are loads of familiar faces - but can you spot yourself?

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Harvey Michael Pratt

24 days

ways for airchat to make revenue: - pay to make your voice naval's - paid analytics (vocal physiognomy) - pay-by-the-slur - pay to turn someone's voice female - moan / bark rooms paid-only

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Harvey Michael Pratt

1 month

"so I dropped out of college to work on this note taking app"

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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

its alumni demo day @speedrun , a dress rehearsal for the real demo day in front of 400+ investors on monday. wish us and our batchmates luck! everyone has worked insanely hard for 2 months, all building up to the next few days.

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Harvey Michael Pratt

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"The "infinite pleasure box" is a common AI games pitch I hear, but it's fundamentally flawed. Let me explain why. The core insight is correct. AI will make game development faster and cheaper, enabling niche games for small audiences - even audiences as small as one. So far,…

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3 months

pov: you’re accelerating (cozily)

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Harvey Michael Pratt

1 month

there are some other founders backchanelling, or trying to “infiltrate my discord” and “figure out what we’re up to”. my guys please just ask me. i’ll hop on the phone. all of my metrics, my pitch, my vision are online - i WANT you to compete with me it’s lonely at the top

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Harvey Michael Pratt

1 year

Two and a half years ago, I started a company with a total stranger I met on Twitter. It’s been a rollercoaster, and I couldn’t have imagined how it would have ended up 🧵👇🏻 (1/3)

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Harvey Michael Pratt

30 days

the duality of man

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5 months

merry christmas from promenade hq

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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

sf is so great you just turn up and tweet until you're assigned a polycule

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Harvey Michael Pratt

3 months

DEVLOG #1 : The Character Creator The Promenade has the best character creator in the world - so I thought I’d show it off a little!

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4 months

another sickeningly idyllic day at promenade hq

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1 month

so i put claude in promenade and now all chats, personalities are 10x better. the hype is real! shipping as part of the isekai update next week

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2 months

accelerate

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2 months

should i add dingboard logo to my demo day slides

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5 months

@FerrisWindrow rumbled

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22 days

the promenade just received a 7.5k wire from a dude i’ve never heard of truly the mandate of heaven (j.k yes im trying to find the guy and return the funds)

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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

just had our first player interview something about watching a 9-year-old's eyes light up talking about your game have never felt this way about anything else i've built or made

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Harvey Michael Pratt

3 months

i basically think the framing around “infinite adventures” or “infinite choices” is dead wrong for AI games. most people aren’t that creative. imagine netflix with infinite shows - and infinite option paralysis. my focus as a game designer is instead on creating context

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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

when i was 16 years old i got sick of not being able to maintain eye contact or talk to people or generally exercise rizz i used to catch the bus into town and talk to homeless people for hours since they’re the only people who won’t judge you for being socially maladapted

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2 months

@npceo_ u and squirtle r too socially adept it is like… how r u also technical?!? in awe

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3 months

a little tour of our game studio on a cozy, rainy sunday

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5 months

@ctjlewis your phrasing of the question gave him an out that he took.

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2 months

pretty banging crowd. proud of my friends and batch mates!

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2 months

demo: delivered ✅

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5 months

@selentelechia i thought this was going to be a wonderful thread about how you learned on a crap instrument and are gifting yourself a stradivarius for christmas to celebrate your progress but this sucks i’m sorry that happened

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2 months

i can’t 😭 i built this game and have 0 idea wtf i’m looking at

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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

my players are proactively building and maintaining a wiki about my game WHAT is happening

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21 days

coming to the promenade soon

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Common Sense Machines

21 days

We're excited to release Text-to-Animation for production-grade meshes! 🎉 Creators can now animate both existing as well as AI-generated assets. 🛠️🎨 This is a major step towards democratizing 3D world building. Play with it here:

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pirate wires meetup last night was a blast, and a real full-circle moment for me. pw had a huge effect on my life - it substantially inspired me to drop out of college with no plan beyond “build something sick” nice to put faces to names, etc. y’all are cool ppl.

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Promenade Valhalla hybrid cel/pixel shading test (bonus points: spot that Pokémon!) took 30 minutes to generate from a Promenade character using our image pipeline + @CSM_ai running at 60fps in browser using Threlte ( @threejs wrapper for @sveltejs ) with dynamic lighting.

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1 month

pratt at vibe gala

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3 months

The Promenade is a new type of video game - a hybrid social network / dungeon crawler for AI-powered NPCs. Here's the 45 second rundown:

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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

HI, I'm publicly sharing all metrics and data for my AI-powered RPG, The Promenade, here on X. Companies are usually pretty guarded about this stuff - so why am I doing this? 1) This data blows my mind and I'm very proud of it. 2) It's useful data for investors who might hit my…

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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

something weird that’s started happening is getting cold-pitches for ai stuff at sf events idk who you think i am but im not that guy please stop it + past 11pm i won’t remember anyway

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28 days

not people asking for white-label promenade

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when the random woman at the bar in nyc tells me i dress like a backstreet boy :/

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29 days

it's gonna be so fucking funny when we isekai linkedin

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5 months

@202accepted :/

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just hyperstitioned trending on twitter

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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

speedrun has been a total step change for the promenade. the access to talent, partners and industry leaders has been incredible. also very sure i’ve made some long-term friends in the batch! if you’ve ever dreamed of building a game - now’s the time, these are the people.

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A16Z GAMES SPEEDRUN 🧊

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📣 Calling All Founders 📣 SPEEDRUN is coming to Los Angeles this summer. SPEEDRUN is @a16zGames accelerator for startups building at the intersection of tech x games, and we invest $750k in each selected company 👀 Applications for SR003 will be open from April 1st to May…

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2 months

hey it’s not a big deal but sometimes it feels like you hate me haha

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2 months

don't use vercel or next.js

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3 months

🫡

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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

if u were wondering what the dog tag is, there you go. unironic, fanatical true believer and future praxian.

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Dryden Brown

2 months

Was watching @npceo_ a16z demo day video, then noticed he’s wearing a praxis dog tag on stage — legend

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3 months

omg the warm fuzzies

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3 months

happy jason is no more dark jason rises

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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

on track to hit 2k on demo day, how fortuitous. the wind is in our sails now, boys thanks all for being a part of this journey i still can't believe i get to make a silly video game for a living

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29 days

it’s funny because i spent most of the past 2 weeks running around like a jackass telling people the promenade was gonna go kinda viral but then it did

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4 months

what the fuck is going on

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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

calm moisturised in my lane moving like a motherfucker

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Jason Demeter

2 months

Vibes: immaculate Pitch: killer Energy: high @speedrun demo day lfg

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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

come watch your boy yap about the most important thing in the world (video games) oh yeah the guy who made the sims is there too

@fablesimulation

The Simulation

@fablesimulation

2 months

🚨Virtual Beings Summit at @fdotinc NEXT THURSDAY! SIGN UP 🚨 Speakers: Will Wright @TheSims , @JackSoslow @a16z , @buckhouse @sequoia @KevinAFischer @npceo_ @eyc @GuangyuRobert @sobylife @hthieblot @MyReplika @holodeckai @tejasdkulkarni @CSM_ai @hmason

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16 days

believe it or not this is Promenade Valhalla. You'll see what I mean when I QT this is a few weeks.

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20 days

lmao not a16z lifting from my deck for their marketing

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A16Z GAMES SPEEDRUN 🧊

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when stucc i ask this question

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3 months

gladly. Something @DeveloperHarris tweeted about LLMs x video games a few weeks ago has really stayed with me - I'll try and summarize: LLMs in games are tricky design space. Too much LLM, and everything has weird a lucid dream feel. Too little LLM, and your game is a…

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Roger C.

3 months

@npceo_ creating context? professor plz elaborate

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3 months

it took 4 months, but promenade HQ rooftop access: secured ✅

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2 months

saturdays are for playtesting the promenade w friends

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2 months

Yesterday I took part in the @a16zGames speedrun hackathon for games founders. My goal was ambitious: to double the number of people who had played my AI-powered game, The Promenade, in just 12 hours. Here's a write-up of how that went, and the hackathon more generally.

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Harvey Michael Pratt

2 months

@natfriedman still maintain that an agent is anything that can provision and pay for itself and that bar hasn’t been cleared yet

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4 months

happy to announce we FINALLY hired faang employees! ui/ux from amazon and product managers from google, holy shit, we’re so fucking back!

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Harvey Michael Pratt

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this video honestly kinda changed my life when i first saw it

@TodePond

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2 years

What happens if you fold reality over? 📃 #fractal + #creativecoding + #javascript

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i think a lot of founders would say they're simultaneously the hardest-working and laziest person they know

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speedrun? completed it mate

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next update: the promenade valhalla

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4 months

@gfodor very well done

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learning programmatic 3d meshes / rigging / lighting / projection has been such a trip. realising there’s far fewer best practices than in traditional software engineering, because most 3d assets are precooked by artists. it’s the wild west out here!

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2 months

very common silicon valley grift: older "industry insider" convinces two technical young founders who've just raised that they need a non-technical COO so they can "focus on building" breaks my heart every time.

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2 months

DEMO DAY DEMO DAY DEMO DAY DEMO DAY DEMO DAY DEMO DAY DEMO DAY

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no one tells you this as a kid but you can literally just quit your job and build a video game

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auspicious view from promenade hq today

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3 months

redesigned home page + loads of new shit + public launch imminent

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6 months

the evening has devolved

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turns out the one person in silicon valley i hadn't talked to about blimps was my largest extant investor great news guys, they love it. Promenade pivot incoming!

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i don’t mind when you do the work. so long as you do it.

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