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On the other hand, they are a YC company: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/buttercoin http://www.crunchbase.com/company/buttercoin
by DanielRibeiro 13y ago
On the other hand, they are a YC company: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/buttercoin http://www.crunchbase.com/company/buttercoin
- joering2 13y agoSo is AirBnb with one of the coowners listed on top 100 FBI cyberscammers list. Im sorry but having a rubberstamp of PG is not the same as having blessing of Elon Musk, for example. PG seems to be drifting into the dark side. What worked for Airbnb (scamming people on craiglist to solicit airbnb) worked as charm on SocialCam when the idea was to scam as many of your Facebook friends as possible.
- sheetjs 13y agoSimilar questions were raised when discussing InstallMonetizer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711), a company that makes drive-by installers > I think people will be wondering if this resembles the founders' ideas when they were funded by [PG], and if this represents the kind of company you wish to be funding.
- judk 13y agoConsidering the age of AirBnB, "drifting" isn't really the right word. YC likes hustlers, it says so in the application, and has for years.
- joering2 13y agoIts a matter of how much "hustling" you like. Someone that hacks a traffic lights and show you how cool they drive and remotely change their lights to green, or someone that hacked a traffic lights and show you how cool sixty cars, twenty dead drivers pileup looks like....
- gaadd33 13y agoCan you link to the top 100 FBI cyberscammers list? I did a bit of googling and was unable to find it. Also which owner of AirBnB is on the list? By owner do you mean a founder or one of their investors?