Joining A Startup Mugs

"Since we're a startup, we were hoping you would pay us to work here."

"Welcome to the startup. Here's your official beanie."

"Remember, we've got to dig down together as a team to create the right foundation that will benefit this entire project as a hole."

"I wonder if A.I. will inevitably become as tired and depressed as we are."

"The leadership team wants a catchy acronym for a new social media app they're calling Functional Applied Relationship Tracker. Any suggestions?"

'I think you are taking this elevator pitch way too literally'.

'We've financed three more startups for no fathomable reason.'

"He might not have got the job with Google, but they weren't going to stop Brian skateboarding to the office."

"We're a very small international conglomerate."

'We've financed three more startups for no fathomable reason.'

Bright Idea

'Ideas.com' desk with a 'come' tray and a 'gone' tray.

"When you've been here as long as I have, you'll start to burn out"

"Ambitions... to open an office on Mars. Kennedy Space Center."

Computer Hitching a Ride to Silicon Valley

Mark Zuckerberg

Boom

"I have no toys just yet. I have a concept of a plan for toys...toys like no one has ever seen before."

"Right here is your baby’s infrastructure, and in a month or so we’ll be able to see the analytics."

Cartoon about having many investors for crowd funding.

"I wrote this one after my third startup failed. It’s called ‘I Got Yer App Right Here.’"

"The Internet startup had only enough cash for one more day. But, miraculously, the money lasted for eight days, until more venture capital could be raised."

'Looks like the perfect time to bring in our profit sharing scheme.'

"'Start a company, make money.' Your business plan may be missing a few steps in the middle."

"We'll analyze the only thing left to analyze: what people throw away."

'Those are my twins: NASDAQ and Dow. They were born at the height of the dot.com boom.'

"If I've got to work for a tyrant . . . I may as well work for myself."

'I begin to question whether this startup ever had venture capital.'

Dragon's den desk. 'I'm in' and 'I'm out' tray on desk.

S.S.dot.com

"Never mind devices - we need to establish a 'bring your own funding' policy."

"You're just gaming down there? Shouldn't you be issuing your first IPO for some billion dollar internet enterprise you've created?"

"I spent hundreds of dollars on a course for entrepreneurs then found out the fire in my belly was acid reflux."

And elevator with 'up', 'down', and 'pitches' buttons

"Can you go through all the old pitch decks and replace the word 'crypto' with 'AI'?"