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YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug

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#81

any crypto that isnt bitcoin, etc, or bch is just a scam imagine digging dirt out of the ground in your backyard and claiming it has value thats how i view crypto

Imagine digging that dirt polluted like a small country. That’s how I view Bitcoin.

Re: YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug

#82

Not familiar with his crypto hustle, but I watched some Martin Kleppman talks on YouTube, and Tech Lead commercials started devouring my YouTube. The algorithm mistook me for not knowing how to code? Not sure. Apparently this tech lead guy created programming videos to teach you how to get hired at big tech companies. It turned out the partner guy in the videos wasn’t even a developer but had maybe interned somewhere…

Tai Lopez! “Here in my garage, just bought this new Lamborghini here. It’s fun to drive up here in the Hollywood hills. But you know what I like more than materialistic things? Knowledge. In fact, I’m a lot more proud of these seven new bookshelves that I had to get installed to hold two thousand new books that I bought. It’s like the billionaire Warren Buffett says, “the more you learn, the more you earn.””

This is my favourite of those: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GIwTG8V-Ko

Re: YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug

#83
The MM coin is clearly launched as a joke and to inform about how he created it.

I like his channel.. been following him for quite a while, and I mostly agree with the things he says. He makes it sound like it's all a joke or made up, but it's really not.

Re: YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug

#84
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Highly recommend CoffeeZilla (Youtube): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQMnBA3CS502aghlcr0_aw He has a very good video recently on a scam being run by influencers and provides some pretty damning evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv6ne6VQCZI

If you are familiar with the term 'Drama channels', they are a very toxic genre where the group finds a target and gives their opinion about the alleged offences. All good and well except they started to create the drama and their fans would dogpile on people or as twitter would describe 'Targeted harassment campaigns'. CoffeeZilla is a drama channel often with dubious opinion driven videos. There a few other drama c…

Nah, scam debunking is a good and fun genre. There are so many YouTube ads promising so many false get rich quick schemes that it’s shooting fish in a barrel. Exposing the affiliate marketing, fake guru, forex, dropshipping, class hustling frauds of social media is an entertaining public service.

Re: YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug

#85
post #11

Anyone who's always speaking "as a millionaire" isn't someone I'd listen to.

His channel is satire. The problem I have with it is the extreme deadpan delivery, the arrogance and closeness to reality. Obviously he’s playing a character; but I wish I didn’t get so much of a “this is serious” vibe.

Maybe it's humor, maybe he's serious, maybe it's both. When you do both, you can always run for cover when you go too far and claim it was humor. The problem is, after a while you're not so sure who you are anymore. Are you saying things because they're funny, or you really believe them?

For the record I always thought he was somewhat on the spectrum but much of what he does is his attempt at humor(and I often find it funny).

Re: YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug

#86

Not familiar with his crypto hustle, but I watched some Martin Kleppman talks on YouTube, and Tech Lead commercials started devouring my YouTube. The algorithm mistook me for not knowing how to code? Not sure. Apparently this tech lead guy created programming videos to teach you how to get hired at big tech companies. It turned out the partner guy in the videos wasn’t even a developer but had maybe interned somewhere…

Sounds like you need to build some passive income streams and generate wealth. Please buy the online course I'm hucking on YouTube because I'm such an expert in these topics. Seriously though, it pains me to see the young and naive fall for these scams. Also, wasn't there a data science YouTuber recently that was busted for more or less plagiarizing their content?

> Also, wasn't there a data science YouTuber recently that was busted for more or less plagiarizing their content?

You might be thinking of Siraj Raval?

https://mobile.twitter.com/AndrewM_Webb/status/1183150368945...

(Or not, I’m sure there’s been a dozen other cases of this in data science alone)

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#88

How can companies like Google change their hiring process and avoid toxic engineers like this? I’m sure he did well on the Leetcode interviews and even accelerated up the engineer ladder relatively quickly by “playing by the rules”

He got early into the app boom and made a ton of money selling his mobile games, which definitely gave him the credibility to enter FAANG.

https://guruscoach.com/techlead-patrick-shyu/#Making_over_a_...

Re: YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug

#89

Not familiar with his crypto hustle, but I watched some Martin Kleppman talks on YouTube, and Tech Lead commercials started devouring my YouTube. The algorithm mistook me for not knowing how to code? Not sure. Apparently this tech lead guy created programming videos to teach you how to get hired at big tech companies. It turned out the partner guy in the videos wasn’t even a developer but had maybe interned somewhere…

> I can’t tell if this guy is trying to be a parody/using dry humor or if he’s a narcissist sociopath.

That's his shtick.

Re: YouTube channel “TechLead” creator has created a crypto and pulled the rug

#90

I want to assess this situation by facts and not by sentiments for or against TechLead. Could someone please help me understand some facts: - The reddit post only provides an etherscan link to the transaction in which he adds liquidity. Where did he remove liquidity? - Permanent removal of liquidity clearly breaks the promise of 1MM for at least 1 USDC. But a temporary removal does not, correct? - As long as more peo…

How can one just remove liquidity? Why is that even technically possible?
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