Interesting story but marred by the silly "tsk-tsk, Y Combinator" framing. There's no perfect system for weeding out charismatic deceitful people. (Within the d

Interesting story but marred by the silly "tsk-tsk, Y Combinator" framing. There's no perfect system for weeding out charismatic deceitful people. (Within the domain of The New Republic, see: Stephen Glass.) Picking any one case that in hindsight would have benefitted from more digging doesn't mean more front-loaded vetting is a net beneficial thing across a whole portfolio, given the cost, delays, and error-rates of any deep background x-ray into a still-rapidly-evolving young person.