Venture capitalists are very typical. they dress a certain way and if you’ve been on Twitter, you may have come across VC Twitter. There has even been a VC starter kit. The VC starter kit includes a Patagonia fleece vest, Allbirds black sneakers, Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari and Zero to One by Peter Theil, subscription to VC newsletters like Term Sheet, StrictlyVC, Stratechery, and Wine Spectator.
The flip side of VC Congrats Twitter is “Jump to your defense after a media hit piece” Twitter
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Some of the tweets from VC Twitter can be so predictable and that’s why Parrot VC was created. Parrot VC is a new Twitter account and also a website with the aim of mocking VC Twitter.
If you take a bunch of meetings "to learn more about" something and don't tweet out the handles of everyone you met to thank them — did the meetings even happen?
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The Tool has been made by siblings Samantha and Nick Loui. Parrot VC was fed 65,000 tweets written by some 50 venture capitalists to a machine learning bot.
How VCs see themselves after they send a “Keep up the good work” emailpic.twitter.com/hYHFlMiljp
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Parrot VC automatically generates somewhat nonsensical or entirely nonsensical 280 character tweets.
In Hacker News, the two creators say that the bot uses predictive text to generate “amazing, new startup advice,” They even tried reaching out to Gavin Belson from the HBO satirical show Silicon Valley saying it would be a perfect acquisition for Hooli.
Hi new friends! You can learn more about me on this thread -> https://t.co/0yzhzoZ8xB or just follow along for the ride 🦜
— Parrot.vc (@parrot_vc) December 4, 2019
Here are some sample tweets
Saved a man going into an interview with that. One of my favorite funds rn. 💯 https://t.co/PtLnJVVLR0 via @parrot_vc
— Nico (@nicoflojo) December 6, 2019