Silicon Valley Leaders Sit Down With Wildfire At Investment Meeting After Being Impressed By Its Rapid Expansion

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MENLO PARK, CA—Expressing their desire to get in on the ground floor of what they see as an exciting investment opportunity, top Silicon Valley executives reportedly took a meeting Wednesday with the Sonoma County–based Kincade Fire after being impressed by its rapid expansion. “We’ve seen the moves you’re making and would like to offer a cash infusion of $1 billion to get you to the next level,’’ said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who, according to sources, was accompanied by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and dozens of other tech luminaries eager to partner with the week-old blaze responsible for burning over 75,000 acres and leveling 206 structures. “You started with nothing a few days ago, and what you’ve been able to do in such a short timeline has been really exciting to watch. You’re getting great engagement, and you’ve already disrupted businesses in many areas. We believe there’s just incredible growth potential here.” Reports confirmed the tech leaders went on to ask the wildfire what kind of support it thought it would need to scale up, increase its reach, and go national.

 

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With Buster Poindexter as the musical accompaniment.

Something drastically needs done even if chemically or genetically engineered atmosphere around the West as long as it's made w/components that are safe for the environment & will recycle naturally back into the atmosphere/ ozone layer. This concept may seem geeky but I'm serious

Meet the company that’s disrupting nature

Yeah, all you need is oxygen and you're all set! 🤣🤣🤣

Okay. That one wasn't bad. Who'd you still it from? TheOnionSucks

So close to the truth

'Zuckerberg's prototype for 'Fire Trump' app goes up in flames.'

I smell vaporware. .

A growth model to emulate

So, was it a boy or a girl?

💀💀💀

This is is hilarious and also already happened 8 years ago...

I laughed

TheFireTracker2 DeleteFacebook

the onion is amazing

Hahaha lol 😂 this is an all-timer.. had to zoom in on pic to make sure. 😂

Lol 🤣😂😂

Lol, dude in this thread blocked me for saying I’d love to see Zuckerberg trying to have a convo with a raging wildfire. Hi, I live in California, the weather right now is currently toxic smoke clouds. I don’t give a f—k if you’re upset about fire related jokes.

Result of Elon Musk having a really strong curry at Jack's house.

They should make an app for that.

Of course Zuckerberg would be attracted to the fire. Lizards are cold blooded after all.

people have died in these wildfires, it's not funny

🤣🤣

Hahaha. This is golden.

What every news station will look like in the near future.🤣

Fun at the office🤣

Clileywes

lal.

I see that you're burning a lot of cash. How are you going to fix that?

The real reason the Kincade fire was growing fast and moving south towards the bay was because it was late for a meeting

Taw_EM

So, what’s hot?

And PG&E for disrupting the power supply industry?

Thanks theonion for your prompt roomful of flames.

gsurya haha

The best.

A burning hot opportunity!

Yo your concept is fire, guys

NoahAShaul Are we sure this isn't that meeting with Zuckerberg and Trumpster fire?

'we really like how you move fast and break stuff' 'exactly, fail forward fast' 'plus, we believe fire wants to be free'

Stupid.

Lol okay

monteiro This is fine.

Now. *THIS* is comedy!

Must be a meeting taking place in Brazil

famousandyhall

Move fast and burn things

They want to acquire the fire

The reason why so rapid is because methane gas is spouting out from ground cracks and burning like this. People may be able to prevent firing by covered ground with concrete completely.

We like your energy and we'd like to harness it for clicks.

That’s just wrong 😂

tmrchrdsn

Within days of the meeting, Google's algorithm started to push more positive wildfire stories up the search results, Facebook removed all fake news relating to the wildfire, and Twitter started to remove anti-wildfire accounts.

RoyPushkin

Let's hear it out.

They also found it refreshing that it causes an actual sensation in the body, rather than just being numbers on a screen.

So, where do you see yourself in the next 5 years?

mystic_medusa By the way mystic_medusa the Belgian entire electrical feed decided to pick this week to update its network! Can’t explain the change in the usually fine running country , couldn’t buy train tickets, trains changed to other train stations other than central and the airport

TESLAcharts Oh wow this is good

AlexElsea Nothing like having a trailblazer on the team !

jessesingal 'It's truly disrupting the buildings and structures industry.'

TESLAcharts FElon musk where are you

Literal monthly burn

chgunderman

jlmcgilly

When will you start charging? are you rolling our the business model to all users or a/b testing different business models within fenced-in user groups in order to de-risk the decision?

Company mission: light up the world!

_mantis_ h3h3productions

'Hey! I brought us pizzas for the mee.......ting'

Scales well..

mlse Wildfire: Biggest Disruptor In The Valley?

AnandWrites Right?

shakirhusain Greed knows no bounds.

shaig

I hear the founders also sparked Tinder.

The Samwer brothers (Rocket internet) will love it, because this business model can easily be cloned to other countries.🔥

Sounds like a hot stock!

stuartsierra fully featured observability!

This stock is hotter than Tinder.

Clearly no one's been vacuuming the forest floor.

The company will be called WeBurn

So that's the real reason they're planting 10 million trees!

sirkickbuns23 ItsTacosDude

Jesus Christ this is good

Woof. Too early.

SamDiFabbio 😂

Is it too soon to be thinking about an exit strategy?

I can't tell the difference, they both consume everything in sight leaving nothing but ash and startups

PresidentLebo 😆😂

UniquelyGillian Cc wokyleeks

I don’t see this scaling to other parts of the country, so for that reason I’m out SharkTank

TbobSmith

We need tens of billions here also please SoftBank VisionFund 😃

holy shit

Some solid year over year growth here

PhilCvercko

Is this in reference to WeWork?

Come on; why has no one made the “What’s your burn rate” joke?

colincampbell “First-mover advantage is massive”

colincampbell “We can get out when we have to”

colincampbell “The government can’t regulate it”

colincampbell “It scales”

Wildfires: the original platform expansion

a real life 'this is fine' meme...

On a related note, the California Legislature was just about to address the wildfire-prone power grid, but decided to ban teeny, tiny plastic bottles instead, because, well, California.

Look at FIRES's hockey stick chart !! I'd rate it a STRONG BUY right up there with all the other bluechips of DESERTIFICATION and SEA LEVEL RISE

Yah, sure, but what's to stop, say, another bright spark, with more ready access to combustibles, from stealing your idea, and getting bigger than you?

No problem monetizing this fire thing

Now that's what I call being on the hot seat

Is Jarred around?

“California Wildfire Could Be The Next Uber, Investors Say”

lzneedle

nickportilloo

mcmansionhell “Move fast and burn things”

HNTurtledove But does it web scale?

JPFarnsworth

stealthygeek “Some people might consider fire destructive, but I think if we sit down and talk with it we can find some common ground” Zuckerberg, probably

Peak Onion

The fire is the least dangerous thing in the room

insert 'burn rate' joke here

When is the next fire, and the next meeting?

Is that Zucherberg? Let it burn.

murrell_gina FFS LMAO

That's pretty dangerous. How did they do it safely?

While the fire burns through cash, VCs keep dumping more in.

Zuck and Pichai: You've been able to grow this fast without government scrutiny. Tell us how!

They have a lot of money to burn.

Very Hotmail.

Creative destruction...I'm sure they love it. Somehow Ive made it through life without Facebook.

😂😂😂😂😂

owillis They liked that it’s “creative destructive”.

Onion been on fire lately

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET KARMA COME

Unicorn fires next.

triketora Tricksy, this one is for you

This is a Onion all-timer.

It’s never too soon.

Silicon Valley leaders should be thrown into the wildfire now because one day they’ll become the government.

Big Tech: We want a majority share. How do we buy in. Fire: Trees and land. Big Tech: Say no more, fam

Gives new meaning to the phrase, “You’re fired!”

cc aaronfalk

and we're all about to be spammed with ads for fire extinguishers...

If only

They say that this fire was a start-up from a garage.

I can see this happening

Lol

You wanna growth hack this environment? Oxygen.

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