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Scale AI is an embarrassment to YC in general, as the founders embody every negative trope we’ve come to associate with the worst of the scene. The Youtuber Jom
by ditonal 6y ago
Scale AI is an embarrassment to YC in general, as the founders embody every negative trope we’ve come to associate with the worst of the scene. The Youtuber Joma Tech has an excellent takedown on the sheer arrogance of their founder.
https://youtu.be/HTXTVfBCeSY https://youtu.be/HTXTVfBCeSY
The fetishization of a youthful founder, the ridiculous interview questions, and as I personally made the mistake of doing a phone screen with them before learning some of this, the recruiter admitted that their compensation was “startup compensation” aka we want the smartest people who are dumb enough to work for half the money.
And the cherry on top of course is that the world changing product they are building is, wait for it, labeling data. It’s basically YCs version of Poes Law where it sound like satire but it’s actually real.
- heavyset_go 6y agoThe founder's comments on the YouTube video are just so embarrassing.
- arolihas 6y agoWhere are they? I don’t see them
- heavyset_go 6y agoOne of them is a pinned comment, but they also made others.
- arolihas 6y agoOh I was looking for Alexander’s comments, I didn’t realize Lucy was a founder. Yeah that’s pretty bad.
- codethief 6y agoLove the video but I'm not sure I would consider this a takedown. His comment below the video reads: > Guys I’m not salty, I’m sweet :3 > But for real, I think this company is super promising. Most FANG company have their own in-house system for hiring labelers, and I know that it’s extremely valuable for any ML team. Getting trusted, reliable and cost effective labeled data is not easy for smaller companies. I actually feel honored that I even got to interview for them in the super early stages.
- torgian 6y agoCost effective, but most likely at the expense of paying low wages to super smart people
- srtjstjsj 6y agoIsn't that YC's ideal? That's the impression I got from over a decade of Paul Graham essays .