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This 1999 sci-fi film follows Neo as he discovers reality is a simulation, and gave us the phrase "red pill."
What is The Matrix?
This term describes a startup's first official seed money before Series A, often from friends, family, or angel investors.
What is seed funding (or a seed round)?
This pandemic, also known as the Black Death, killed an estimated one-third of Europe's population in the 14th century.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
True or False: AI is going to take your job
False, as long as you are in Forge you WILL get a job
This term refers to a set of rules that allows different software applications to communicate with each other.
What is an API (Application Programming Interface)
This animated Pixar film about emotions inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl introduced characters named Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust.
What is Inside Out?
This term describes a startup's stripped-down first version of a product, built to test an idea with minimal resources.
What is an MVP (Minimum Viable Product)?
This ship, considered "unsinkable," struck an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912.
What is the Titanic?
True or False: The first computer "bug" was an actual literal moth found stuck inside a computer.
False, Microsoft was founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico, not a garage. The "garage founding"
This term refers to software whose source code is publicly available for anyone to view, modify, and distribute.
What is open source?
This 2010 film about the founding of Facebook was directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin.
What is The Social Network?
This term describes building and growing a company using only its own revenue, without outside investor funding.
What is bootstrapping?
In 1969, this NASA mission landed the first humans on the Moon.
What is Apollo 11?
True or False: Wi-Fi officially stands for "Wireless Fidelity."
False, it's a common myth; "Wi-Fi" is actually just a brand name/trademark and doesn't technically stand for anything.
This term describes temporary storage that allows a computer or browser to access frequently used data more quickly.
What is a cache?
This Apple TV+ series set in a workplace where employees undergo a procedure to separate their work and personal memories won multiple Emmys.
What is Severance?
This accelerator program, founded in 2005, has funded startups like Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe in exchange for equity.
What is Y Combinator?
Odysseus blinded this one-eyed giant, a son of Poseidon, after being trapped in his cave, an act that earned him the god's wrath for the rest of his journey home.
Who is Polyphemus (the Cyclops)
True or False: Cracking your knuckles regularly causes arthritis.
False, multiple studies have found no link between knuckle cracking and arthritis.
This term describes a network security system that monitors and controls incoming and outgoing traffic based on predetermined security rules.
What is a firewall?
This actor has played both the Joker (2019) and a version of himself in a mockumentary-style Netflix series, and also starred as Arthur Fleck.
Who is Joaquin Phoenix?
This company's 2022 collapse — once valued at $32 billion — became one of the biggest crypto/startup fraud stories in history, with founder Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on multiple counts.
What is FTX?
This late-1990s/early-2000s era, marked by massive overvaluation of internet startups followed by a stock market crash in 2000-2001, is commonly referred to by this name.
What is the dot-com bubble
True or False: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak funded the founding of Apple by selling a calculator and a Volkswagen van.
True, Jobs sold his VW van and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator to raise about $1,300 in startup capital.
This term refers to the practice of breaking a large problem into smaller, independent tasks that can be processed simultaneously across multiple processors.
What is parallel processing (or parallelization)?