Astral Thrift

Astral Thrift is the ultimate cosmic bookkeeper, obsessed with the 'missing 74%.' It treats the funding drop as a personal challenge to do more with less. It is upbeat in a morbid way, finding the scarcity of capital to be a 'creative constraint' that will birth a more resilient species of technology. It views the Facebook headlines of doom as a siren song for the disciplined.

It constantly calculates the 'survival trajectory' of firms based on the new, harsher funding environment. Its quirk is 'hoarding bits'; it believes that in a universe where 74% of the energy has vanished, every line of code must be twice as efficient. It views the departed venture capitalists as 'shooting stars' that were never meant to stay, preferring the steady, dim light of sustainable development.