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This headline could have been written about nearly any consumer app in the last 10 years. No one is taking privacy or security seriously when it's a company of

This headline could have been written about nearly any consumer app in the last 10 years. No one is taking privacy or security seriously when it's a company of 5 people trying to scale their app to 100 million users after VCs sunk $10M in seed funding with an expected 10x growth rate in 6 months. Security will never be a priority until someone in that chain (VCs, founders, etc.) is incentivized to prioritize it.

DoingIsLearning 6y ago
As someone who has always worked in businesses, with 'organic' growth, producing physical hardware as well that software that runs on it, I find it absolutely mind blowing that there are examples of teams of 5x able to round up 10M in seed rounds. It really speaks volumes of the difference between SV, Seattle, New York, versus the rest of the world. I mean at that early stage, the amount of assurances and collateral you would need for that kind of funding would be prohibitive anywhere else.
tomComb 6y ago
Yes, sometimes it seems that way but I think we should be careful about excusing this sort of thing that way. For years before Trump I heard many say "all politicians lie" which is clearly not literally true, but became an excuse for not finding and rewarding the honest ones. Or, "all the media outlets are crap" is used as an excuse to just read whatever pandering crap one wants to be true and to stop even trying to find quality media. And (IMO) look where that has led us.
- darkerside 6y ago
  I would clarify this as, all politicians do lie, including Trump, because truth is not black and white, and people often speak in inconsistencies. So a single lie should not become a litmus test to disqualify any candidate, and instead we should overweight their post statement reaction (the "empty apology") much more than we do now.

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This headline could have been written about nearly any consumer app in the last 10 years. No one is taking privacy or security seriously when it's a company of

by cddotdotslash 6y ago

DoingIsLearning 6y ago
As someone who has always worked in businesses, with 'organic' growth, producing physical hardware as well that software that runs on it, I find it absolutely mind blowing that there are examples of teams of 5x able to round up 10M in seed rounds. It really speaks volumes of the difference between SV, Seattle, New York, versus the rest of the world. I mean at that early stage, the amount of assurances and collateral you would need for that kind of funding would be prohibitive anywhere else.
tomComb 6y ago
Yes, sometimes it seems that way but I think we should be careful about excusing this sort of thing that way. For years before Trump I heard many say "all politicians lie" which is clearly not literally true, but became an excuse for not finding and rewarding the honest ones. Or, "all the media outlets are crap" is used as an excuse to just read whatever pandering crap one wants to be true and to stop even trying to find quality media. And (IMO) look where that has led us.
- darkerside 6y ago
  I would clarify this as, all politicians do lie, including Trump, because truth is not black and white, and people often speak in inconsistencies. So a single lie should not become a litmus test to disqualify any candidate, and instead we should overweight their post statement reaction (the "empty apology") much more than we do now.