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The entire company and its $500M has been "deleted" [0] over fraud and cooking their books. A great candidate for the Theranos of AI, even with Microsoft invol
by rvz 1y ago
The entire company and its $500M has been "deleted" [0] over fraud and cooking their books.
A great candidate for the Theranos of AI, even with Microsoft involved as an investor.
We'll see a new wave of fraud(stars) being exposed out of this AI hype.
[0] https://builder.ai https://builder.ai
- Tarsul 1y agohere's the website from the waybackmachine: https://web.archive.org/web/20250328114320/https://www.builder.ai/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250328114320/https://www.build... look at all the awards and brands!
- 6stringmerc 1y ago“Assembles your idea like a LEGO set” is pretty blatant trademark infringement too. Clearly it did not work as a LEGO set because those…actually work. Yet another example of startups getting funding whilst blatantly flouting IP ethics, color me not surprised at all.
- briandear 1y agoNot really a trademark infringement.
- BandButcher 1y agoMaybe I'm just a bad dev but I'm baffled how they charge $46k for "29 features" and $56k for "43 features"... Straight up guestimations and magic numbers but then again they also highlight how you don't have to know anything about tech to use them, so I'm sure setting "fixed pricing" for a fixed number of "features" is a great way to snake oil salesman potential customers
- fakedang 1y agoBest parts are the Gartner Magic Quadrant and G2 awards. Perhaps we should treat them as the Forbes 30 under 30 of SaaS.