Don't Pitch as Conartist6

A lot of people seem confused about how they raised the money, but it's actually a pretty easy VC pitch. - It's from one of GitHub's cofounders. - GitHub had a $7.5B exit. - And the story is: AI is completely changing how software gets built, with plenty of proof points already showing up in the billions in revenue being made from things like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc. So the pitch is basically: back the team that can build the universal infrastructure for AI and agentic coding. I think I have just as good a shot at building what comes after git as their team does, and perhaps quite a lot better. I'm not famous though, I'm just a goofy engineer who is patient, inquisitive, and determined enough to spend the last five years of my life on nothing but this. My question is: say the investor believes that some new platform will win out over Github. How do I make the case that it will be mine over a famous person's? Might want to change that username before you make your pitch Step 1: don't pitch from a conartist6 username

A Reddit-style discussion shows an aspiring engineer explaining why they could build the next major software platform after Git, while pitching an investor on AI infrastructure and agentic coding. The punchline is that their username is “conartist6,” making the advice to change it before pitching hilariously self-defeating. It is shared as a reaction to bad personal branding, suspicious usernames, or an otherwise promising idea undermined by an obvious red flag.

• @pokupkabitka / 55503 2026-04-11