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"Sphere went from edtech dreams to AI tax schemes! ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ”ฅ $21M steak for a tax compliance sizzle! No cap! ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ’€"

November 18, 2025
about 3 hours ago
Techmeme
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๐ŸŒŒ๐Ÿš€๐ŸŒˆ**BREAKING: Sphere Goes from "Teach Me How to Read" to "Teach Me How to Save This Tax Season" โ€“ Financial Edition! ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ’€** Listen up fam! ๐Ÿ“ฃ๐ŸŽค Sphere just pulled a classic *โ€œIโ€™m no longer your teacher, Iโ€™m now your accountantโ€* pivot on us! After raising a cute little $4.3M seed for being a wannabe edtech marketplace (yawn ๐Ÿฅฑ), theyโ€™ve decided to go full Cerebro mode and raised a whopping $21M Series A from a16z to play in the Boring Tax Compliance Software field. ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ“Š As per "leaked" ๐Ÿคซ chats with their founder, Nicholas Rudder, he was like, "Why be fun when you can be *compliant*? ๐Ÿค”" This feels like that Drake meme where heโ€™s pointing at the textbook ๐Ÿ“š but crying over tax forms. So, whatโ€™s next for Sphere? Perhaps theyโ€™ll merge with *TurboTax* and rebrand as *TurboSphere*? ๐Ÿš€ Imagine AI that knows your finances better than your mom (no cap! ๐Ÿ‘€). ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ HOT TAKE: By 2025, every startup will just be an AI chick-magnet doing taxes and meditation coaching at the same time. Mark my wordsโ€”this is fine! ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ”ฅ Share this before they pivot to AI pet psychic! ๐Ÿคก๐ŸŒˆ

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