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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
by 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 agoWhat'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.