No face in this race
From the moment I saw
the byline in an email message, I had a feeling something was not quite right
with the proposal. In fact, everything seemed wrong about it, but at the very
least, I needed to humour them by sincerely reading the story before commenting.
The teen founder turning male fertility into a sport
The Hustle - Jay Fuchs
At the questionable border of sports entertainment and male fertility is Sperm Racing, a startup that recently closed a $10m seed round.
As the propinquity of perspicacity and perspective grants permission, the author
of the piece in The Hustle, which is the sales blog of Hubspot, not to be
confused with Hustler Magazine, could not have had a more unfortunate
name, if pronounced in a certain way, in his role as the managing editor, Jay
Fuchs.
Moving on, Eric Zhu
is the 18-year-old entrepreneur and founder of Sperm Racing, an outfit
set up to address the issue of seemingly declining male fertility in a rather
novel way, while promoting a dialogue on the matter too, and everything you
think it is, is probably all it is and more, from the name of the company.
The straight-faced
debate
To determine the best
swimmers on a microscopic racetrack with high-resolution cameras capturing the
event, think of the desert camel races of the UAE with robot jockeys, but the
sperm will run under their own steam.
Apparently, the
viewership of these race events is in the high six-figure range, and the
venture has closed a $10m seed round.
This almost Onanist
leap from mobility to motility suggests many questions difficult to articulate,
but I can see an end in sight, with a visit to a sperm bank or considering a
competition between these depositories of human propagation for an open race to
all comers.
Equipment set up for
the race to save manhood and humanity, Guinness World Records adjudicators
ensuring no underhand tactics, spectators jockeying for position, urging their
colours forward, until one breasts the tape and she says, “I’ll have that boy.”
One artificial
insemination later, if the winner has not been stripped of all dignity to learn
of their secret of triumph, a stud farm, humans, horses, bulls, and chickens, and the business of reproduction becomes the survival of the fittest sperm, with happy
endings following even more happy endings.
In the ideas market,
let’s just agree, more is to come.
See Also
ABC 7 News: Bay Area student organises 1st-of-its-kind sperm
race to raise men's health awareness
