Mid comic archive
Every strip, newest first. Mid is a comic about Synthetica, an over-funded AI startup in San Francisco and the six people trying to keep it running.
Please The User
Chad tells the company to give customers whatever they want
High Leverage Project
Chad describes his newborn in pure founder-speak, dead serious, until the baby bites him mid-sentence and he takes it all back
So Early
Chad pitches from a stage that his novel ML algorithm will revolutionize how people interact via chat and that they're so early
Parties in SF
A three-circle Venn of the San Francisco tech party
Putting Himself Out There
Chad strikes out approaching two women in a row, walks away defeated, and texts his AI for comfort
The $4Bn Idea
Chad pitches a $4Bn idea
Request For Startups
Chad tells his founder friend YC released their Request For Startups
Too Early
Chip passes on Chad because the company is too early
The Allegations Are True
On trial for investor fraud, Chad admits Anthropic only ever paid him in shares
The Day Off
Chad grandly gives the team the day off to watch the World Cup game
The Sales Expert
Chad mans a stand selling a course from a world leading sales expert
Paternity Leave
Brooke confesses she prompted the AI in Swedish
Days Since Last Pivot
Chad proudly updates the office 'Days since last pivot' counter to 287
Priorities
Chad does strategy with an Eisenhower matrix
In Confidence
Dev tells Chad the team is struggling with mental health
Younger and Younger
A founder tells Chad YC doesn't invest in anyone over 30 anymore
Jevons Paradox
A founder tells Chad the key is technology that enables Jevons Paradox
Idiot Sandwich
Sam confesses a typo in the newsletter
Chips
Chad sits alone studying a whiteboard Venn diagram of Doritos, poker, and Nvidia H100s
Into YC
Chad tells another founder they just got into YC
The Raise
Dev asks for a raise and cites a colleague who got one
Settling In
Chad hears the intern is struggling and learns he has an AI girlfriend
Bare Metal
Chad wants to self-host bare metal servers to save runway
Reference Check
Chad confronts a two-week-old hire he suspects never actually worked at SpaceX
Same AI
Chad isn't impressed with Dev's work
The Speech
Chad stands up to give his groom's speech, blanks in front of the crowd, can only blurt LLM-slop words ('Pondering', 'Ruminating'), and finally mumbles a system prompt at himself
A Balanced Diet
A doctor asks Chad why he thinks he's tired, then reveals Chad's food pyramid
The Round
Chad and Sam sit in silence studying a whiteboard Venn diagram of what a seed round actually is
NYC Has Single Girls
Chad reads that NYC has single women, flies out, and tries to pull using only networking handshakes and startup-speak
The Value Ladder
A startup marketing expo
The Spend Deck
Chad presents a Venn diagram of where the freshly-raised round is going
Tough to Listen To
Sam presents a Venn diagram of Founder, Toddler, and Very Gay Man
The Moat
A VC tells Chad his software has no moat, so two weeks later Chad builds a literal water moat around the office
Total Confidence
Chad has put the company's capital on a Polymarket bet that the USA will win the World Cup and swears he's certain
The Pass
A VC passes on Chad's round to put the money in the Anthropic IPO, admits he only took the meeting to look busy for his LPs, and cheerfully points out Chad won't be a founder much longer either
Performance Review
The AI sales agent is failing
The One That Got Away
Dev brags he could have joined Cursor
He Died Doing What He Loved
At Chad's funeral the priest eulogizes him in pure buzzword salad