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YC has no problem with morally questionable behavior, many YC startups do things that are just as shady. YC is, ultimately, not responsible for what these start
by fontain 6mo ago
YC has no problem with morally questionable behavior, many YC startups do things that are just as shady. YC is, ultimately, not responsible for what these startups choose to do. Delve’s problem is that they betrayed so many other YC companies in the process. An important value of being in YC is access to a ready-made customer base. The licensing issue is nothing compared to their fake audits but it is an affront to the YC community, hence, kicked from the community.
I’m sure if Delve has only engaged in fraudulent audits or had only resold another YC company’s product, they would have been allowed to stay, the problem is all of that combined pissed off enough other YC companies.
- throwaway27448 6mo ago> YC is, ultimately, not responsible for what these startups choose to do. Of course they're responsible for their investments; they're just not liable. YC has a lot to answer for in the damage it's wreaked over the years.
- hdgvhicv 6mo agoThe “I just have the arsonist the match, I didn’t tel him to strike it” approach of tech bros has caused untold damage to the world over the last 20 Years.
- senko 6mo ago> YC has a lot to answer for in the damage it's wreaked over the years. What damage is that? (excluding the present case)
- officialchicken 6mo ago> What damage is that? (excluding the present case) That seems to be an introspective question.
- 1attice 6mo agoExtrospection is valid spection
- barry-cotter 6mo agoThey’re responsible for the existence of scribd. Not aware of any other obviously socially net negative companies.
- transcriptase 6mo agoFor the uninformed what’s the deal with scribd?
- tim333 6mo agoScribd are quite annoying. The pitch was "the YouTube for documents" allowing stuff to be posted and shared but they tend to try and get subscription money off you to see anything unlike the likes of YouTube.
- CamperBob2 6mo agoScribd scrapes the web of all the .PDFs that it can find, then gates them behind a paywall and SEOs their way to the top of Google's rankings. That's it, that's all they do. They run a zero value tollbooth with other peoples' IP, taking advantage of users who don't have the search-fu to hunt down the documents themselves. They should pretty much die in a grease fire.
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- madaxe_again 6mo agoI think it’s partly that, but also that when you have something that is toxic, radioactive and on fire on your ship, you shove it overboard, and assess just how bad the damage was afterwards.
- PunchyHamster 6mo agoOf course, giving money to terrorists also doesn't make the side giving money responsible /s The delusions people establish to feel better about their or someone else they like mistakes...
- dvfjsdhgfv 6mo ago> YC is, ultimately, not responsible for what these startups choose to do. Formally they might not be (depends on the case), but morally they are.
- alanknguyen 6mo agoThis is definitely why they're removed from YC. Their practices affect other YC companies like Lovable and such and that's absolutely unacceptable.