I've actually just encountered this first fucking hand and it disgusted me. I'm an aspiring founder working on something and met a coworker who had been through

I've actually just encountered this first fucking hand and it disgusted me. I'm an aspiring founder working on something and met a coworker who had been through YC W17. I wanted to pick his brain on his experience, especially since I've been applying to YC myself. This coworker told me he and his "startup": - routinely lied to potential customers on the size of their client list - misled clients on the depth and completeness of their product - blatantly broke CA laws to cut cost corners All of this was done to secure contracts in order to secure more funding. "Always be selling", he said. He literally fucking said to me that he learned to "be dubious, not deceitful" which is probably one of the most deceitful things I've ever heard. Made me sick to my stomach and pretty much validated (1) why I never moved to SF in the first place, instead moved to NYC and (2) how much of a fraud YC has become. Absolute fucking madness.