Area Founder Does Product Demo, Product Inexplicably Functions as Intended for First Time in Company History
AUSTIN, TX — In what industry experts are calling a "statistical impossibility," local startup founder Derek Holloway successfully demonstrated his company's AI-powered scheduling assistant to potential investors yesterday without the software crashing, generating racist poetry, or attempting to order 40,000 bananas from a Korean grocery delivery service.
The 45-minute demo at Meridian Ventures proceeded without incident, leaving Holloway visibly shaken as his product, ChronosAI, performed exactly as advertised while several attendees took notes and nodded approvingly.
"I kept waiting for it to start speaking in ancient Sumerian or try to schedule a meeting with my dead grandmother," said Holloway, nervously adjusting his quarter-zip fleece. "When it actually just... scheduled meetings like a normal calendar app, I honestly didn't know what to do with my hands."
Lead engineer Sarah Kim, who has spent the last eight months debugging what she calls "deeply cursed code," watched the demo from the back of the room in stunned silence. During internal testing last week, the software had consistently responded to scheduling requests by generating elaborate fanfiction about office furniture and once tried to book a conference room "inside the concept of Tuesday itself."
"I've never seen Derek so uncomfortable," Kim noted. "Usually during demos, he's frantically clicking through slides while the product hallucinates increasingly bizarre calendar entries in the background. Today it just worked, and you could see his whole worldview crumbling in real time."
