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Not to be dramatic, but it would be nice if this domain/"enterprise" were not allowed here based on the reporting from Vox[0]. [0] - https://www.vox.com/recode

Not to be dramatic, but it would be nice if this domain/"enterprise" were not allowed here based on the reporting from Vox[0]. [0] - https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/11/26/20930374/nathan-latka-podcast-saas-data-top-entrepreneurs https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/11/26/20930374/nathan-latka-...

jjeaff 7y ago
After reading that article, I have got to say that it's so ironic that many of these SV founders are mad that Latka is selling their company data. One actually said when I provided that information for the podcast, "I didn't intend for that data to be sold." Latka's argument is that he is clear in the podcast and many other places that is what he does. It sounds like he is playing startup founders with their own game. Provide a service that the founder/company wants for free or little cost. Then turn around and sell their data to 3rd parties. I would be willing to bet that is the business model of many of the companies that have appeared on the podcast and are mad at having their data packaged and sold. And Latka's response is the same as all the founders of those types of companies. "It's in the fine print, bro!"
- anon1m0us 7y ago
  What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Here is a human person doing to corporate persons what they have been doing to human persons. It drives a stake in the heart of their hypocrisy. They take your private info and sell it for marketing and he takes their marketing and sells their private info. The desire for HN'ers to silence this publication of private data speaks to the nature of the community being blind to their own wrongs.
mfrye0 7y ago
You beat me to it. I was going to share this too. I believe Michael Seibel had some choice words on Twitter last week about this guy. If you want to see one of the interviews, the one from Workato is particularly memorable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg8q6RqpefM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg8q6RqpefM. The founder couldn't handle the pressure.
stevehawk 7y ago
What about that article makes it worth banning Latka?

jjeaff 7y ago

After reading that article, I have got to say that it's so ironic that many of these SV founders are mad that Latka is selling their company data. One actually said when I provided that information for the podcast, "I didn't intend for that data to be sold." Latka's argument is that he is clear in the podcast and many other places that is what he does. It sounds like he is playing startup founders with their own game. Provide a service that the founder/company wants for free or little cost. Then turn around and sell their data to 3rd parties. I would be willing to bet that is the business model of many of the companies that have appeared on the podcast and are mad at having their data packaged and sold. And Latka's response is the same as all the founders of those types of companies. "It's in the fine print, bro!"

anon1m0us 7y ago
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Here is a human person doing to corporate persons what they have been doing to human persons. It drives a stake in the heart of their hypocrisy. They take your private info and sell it for marketing and he takes their marketing and sells their private info. The desire for HN'ers to silence this publication of private data speaks to the nature of the community being blind to their own wrongs.

mfrye0 7y ago

You beat me to it. I was going to share this too. I believe Michael Seibel had some choice words on Twitter last week about this guy. If you want to see one of the interviews, the one from Workato is particularly memorable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg8q6RqpefM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg8q6RqpefM. The founder couldn't handle the pressure.

stevehawk 7y ago

What about that article makes it worth banning Latka?