# Turbo (TURBO)

> Rhett Mankind made the Turbo memecoin with GPT-4; its market cap hit $94.5M by May 9.

- Owner: Rhett Mankind (Rhett Dashwood)
- Kind: App & software
- Sector: Finance
- Seed date: 2023-04-29
- Peak date: 2023-05-09
- Spread Score: 30 (Niche, provisional), v1.2
- Mechanics: Maker origin, Underdog, Press loop

## Summary

Artist Rhett Mankind asked GPT-4 to make a memecoin on a $69 budget and let Twitter followers vote on its name and mascot. Turbo launched by April 29, 2023. Influencers and an Elon Musk comment drew traders, and its volume passed Shiba Inu's on May 9.

## Timeline

- 2023-04-23 — Rhett Mankind (X) — Mankind tweeted that he gave GPT-4 a $69 budget and asked it to make the next great meme coin.
- 2023-04-24 — Rhett Mankind (X) — After followers picked the name TurboToad, Mankind polled them on a toad mascot image.
- Week of Apr 24, 2023 — Rhett Mankind (X) — A bot drained the $69 test pool; followers voted to continue, and the token was renamed Turbo.

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Canonical URL: https://howitspread.com/cases/turbo-token

Cite as: How It Spread (2026). “Turbo (TURBO).” Case HIS-00846. Spread Score v1.2: 30/100. Updated 2026-10-17. https://howitspread.com/id/HIS-00846