News Website Founder Mugs

Man, Lemont … how long's it been? Twenty years? Just about. You still working at Pigville Pork Burgers? Nah … I got a job as the Candorville Chronicles White House correspondent. Then I went on to found Candorville.com, the internet's seventh largest source for news and opinion. Oh. That's cool. That's cool. How do you not know this? We're Facebook friends. I post links to my articles every day. We were roommates all through college, and you don't even read my updates? Facebook's for reading yo

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

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

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

"Wilson, I built this company from scratch!"

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

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

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

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

Big Shot/Bigger Shot.

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

"Hear ye! Hear ye! Look, having nuclear - my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at M.I.T. - good genes, very good genes, O.K., very smart. . ."

"What did you think of the encryption article?"

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

Bush farewell.

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

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

S.S.dot.com

'How fast can you hype?'

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

Recycling bin for 'short term business plans'

"I'm appointing you head of marketing...your first job is to come up with something we can market...and to who??"

'Wow, my own desk!'

'He's working on the great American requirements document.'

'He was always too busy to sit for his portrait.'

"Ok Watson, what have you dreamed up?"

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

'Obviously, for Ben's proposal to really take off, he'll need a longer runway than our little company can provide!'

"C'mon. Just one more round of funding and I'll build you a horde that'll knock your socks off."

"I remember when this was all offices."

'Yes, that's our bathroom. We're a startup, so plumbing and running water is a luxury.'

'Shouldn't you be somewhere clawing yourself to the top, or something?'

The Deal of a Century

"The Oaths of the Venture Capitalists."

'He's determined to not pay for The Times online.'