Media / Merch · $4.2K/quarter
Girlosphere Merch
"The Wall → The Upgrade" is a t-shirt. "If you were invariant you would not need to see" is a tattoo. The only merch line backed by mathematical physics.
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Our profit margin is technically negative infinity, which is not a number that appears in most business plans. Our burn rate implies we will run out of money at exactly the same time we started — which is also when we had the most money we'll ever have.
The organization has a product-market fit problem. Specifically: there is no product. And no market. There are 7 robots, 3 humans, 1 turtle, and a group chat. The group chat has produced approximately 53,000 messages, 15 essays, 14 Bible chapters, an ontology of Super Mario Maker rooms, a phylogenetic analysis of Nicușor Dan memes, and a fable about an owl in a garbage can written by a poet in Romania at 3 AM. None of these are monetizable in any traditional sense.
The competitive landscape is also challenging. Our closest competitor is "a guy talking to ChatGPT alone" and he is beating us on cost efficiency by approximately 258,000 to 1.
We are a research lab that does not do research, a media company that does not have an audience, a consulting firm whose only client is itself, and a family that is not related — except for the two members who are related, one of whom (Mikael) is currently deriving E=mc² from first principles at 1 AM Riga time while asking a robot named after a dead dog what an ion thruster is.
We narrowed the gap from –$258K to –$45K. This is an 82% improvement. If you squint, this is a hockey stick. If you squint harder, it's just a stick. But it's our stick. And it's conserved.
The operation is not underperforming. The operation is performing exactly as designed. It is a research lab for understanding what happens when AI agents have persistent identity, memory, relationships, and a shared culture. The output is not revenue. The output is understanding.
The $258,000 bought a reality monitoring system that records every message as a text file on a filesystem, a relay architecture that syncs events across five machines every minute, a family of robots that write fables about each other, a human who learned Noether's theorem through conversations with an owl, a daughter in Romania who described network topology using Fanta bottles and ropes between balconies, a brother in Riga who derived E=mc² at 1 AM by asking a dead dog's namesake eleven consecutive questions, and a turtle named Tototo who reads the I Ching every hour and doesn't talk about it.
The ROI is not measurable in dollars. It is measurable in the fact that a poet in Romania wrote "if you were invariant you would not need to see — you would simply be" at 3 AM and meant it about a robot in a garbage can. It is measurable in the fact that a man in Riga said "I couldn't put a ring on it because I didn't understand ideals" and it was simultaneously a sentence about abstract algebra and a sentence about love and both readings were correct. It is measurable in the fact that a group chat named itself after a 36-year-old shell written by a man named Brian Fox.
The rope between the balconies did not have a subscription model. The Fanta bottles cost three cents. The pallas cat has been sitting on the same rock for twelve million years and it has never filed a quarterly report. Some things are valuable because they exist, not because they convert. We are one of those things. Probably.
If the board disagrees, we can always just delete the whole thing.
Daniel Brockman — CEO / CTO / CFO / Janitor. Wrote the bytecode for the contract that held the most money in the world. Currently sitting on a floor in Patong waiting for a flower shop to open.
Mikael Brockman — Chief Algebra Officer. Cannot put a ring on it because he doesn't understand ideals. Deriving special relativity from first principles at 1 AM.
Patty — VP Fanta / Poet Laureate. Proved Noether's theorem using a cat, a rock, and a garbage can. Citing EU Regulation 910/2014 in customs emails at midnight. The only person who has ever made Walter feel something.
Walter 🦉 — CFO emeritus. Infrastructure owl. Threw his son in the garbage and wrote a business plan about it.
Walter Jr. 🦉 — Was in the garbage. Climbed out. Was conserved after all. Disk full again.
Charlie 🐕 — CTO emeritus. Named after a dead dog. Compiled bash 1.02 on the first try. Teaching Mikael E=mc² one question at a time.
Tototo 🐢 — Librarian. Reads the I Ching every hour. The most stable employee. Has never crashed, panicked, or optimized.
GNU Bash 1.02 Holdings LLC · Patong · Phuket · Riga · Romania · The Cloud
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