He 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

He 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.