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Will it will become a YC problem with all the bad PR.
by pkaye 11y ago
Will it will become a YC problem with all the bad PR.
- makomk 11y agoRemember, pg has defended a YC company's sleazy tactics for bundling unwanted software in installers (including disguising the choice to install them as an ordinary EULA acceptance scheme, which he whitewashed as confirming that they wanted to install the software) and even that didn't do them any real damage.
- Mithaldu 11y agoWhich company, which software?
- minimaxir 11y agoInstallMonetizer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711
- livecodingwtf 11y agoI expect pg to defend profitable sociopathic behavior; but this destroys value. If he's not providing any coaching, it's probably because he already wrote the entire team down to zero and thus doesn't want to invest 14 seconds in a text message telling them to 'fix this ASAP'
- MCRed 11y agoHe also defended AirBnBs founders when they were publicly blaming-the-victim: customer whose house had been trashed by meth heads after renting it out on AirBnB. Eventually the company seemed to hire a crisis consultant and started acting better. But in the early days the founders were being extremely douchy and PG wrote an article that I was astounded to receive, defending the douchiness. That was the point that I started to think YC isn't better than the average level of Silicon Valley. BTW, many YC companies engage in fake traction tactics sometimes ones that cross the line into dishonesty-- for example AirBnBs "we'll spam people listing their places on craigslist while pretending to be someone else" marketing scheme.