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What prevents them from selling the database of their paid users to the highest bidder?

• chaostheory 4y ago
  No clue. You’re going to have to ask https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=beyondd https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=beyondd I’m assuming that YC frowns on their funded companies doing unsavory things?
  • djbebs 4y ago
    Didn't YC literally invest in a ponzi scheme?
  • muzani 4y ago
    As someone who applied to every YC company in my region, I find their funded companies do lots of unsavory things. I stopped buying from one because they were using deceptive marketing, and I stopped applying to one after the Glassdoor talked about the long hours and racist incidents. There's a kind of YC culture where they believe nice guys do well [1]. And they're likely biased towards funding nice people. But after they're funded, they don't really have any control over the company. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html
  • ziddoap 4y ago
    >I’m assuming that YC frowns on their funded companies doing unsavory things? Only if it leads to unsavory revenue reports.