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		matheist 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anthropic raises $13B Series F You know, it only just now occurs to me to wonder if the blackjack story is the public sanitized version of "how I got $24k because I'm not allowed to tell you the real version"

askafriend 7 months ago | [–]

Great thought, that seems very likely since so many "founder stories" are heavily spun tales.

Analemma_ 7 months ago | [–]

Las Vegas still had deep mafia ties in the 1970s so that’s very possible.

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