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Flock was valued at $7.5 billion last year, and it's probably worth more now. It's absolutely one of YCombinator's success stories. YCombinator's goal is to ma
by CobrastanJorji 8mo ago
Flock was valued at $7.5 billion last year, and it's probably worth more now. It's absolutely one of YCombinator's success stories.
YCombinator's goal is to make a lot of money by causing there to be more startups, and therefore more successor startups. "Make the world a better place" is not one of their success metrics. They're investors, not altruists.
- soperj 8mo agoIt's only a success if all you care about is money.
- LadyCailin 8mo agoWhich is all a great deal of people in America care about, yes.
- unclad5968 8mo agoThey could also care about mass surveillance.
- DavidPiper 8mo agoThey do. The political and economic environment (edit: in the US) is currently supporting the idea that mass surveillance is an extremely lucrative investment opportunity.
- mikkupikku 8mo agoThis is YC we're talking about. They'd fund payday loans with organs as collateral for African orphans if they could. Seriously, they have NO scruples. (And yes, I know where I am.)
- cucumber3732842 8mo agoThat sounds like honest business compared to getting paid by the government to circumvent the laws that prevent the state from spying on it's own citizens at scale.
- CobrastanJorji 8mo agoYes. Therefore, for Y Combinator, this is a success story.
- OGEnthusiast 8mo ago[dead]
- computerthings 8mo ago[dead]