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

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Post by dgb23 »

Kiro wrote: post #92

After watching his videos on this, it's pretty obvious to me that he created the coin as a joke/satire to show the absurdity. Yet most comments are talking seriously about this and comparing it to actual pump'n'dump scams. What's the deal?

The deal is that he is a comedian first but also gives advice that is often superficial but serious enough so there is some value to it for beginner developers. It’s both satire and seemingly genuine encouragement.

Most importantly he seems to be very good at YouTube marketing. Apparently many have watched his videos, even in this crowd, which means he knows how to attract views.

My intuition is that this is a stunt, but there is a non zero chance that he is in over his head.

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

#102

Post by godmode2019 »

Apocryphon wrote: post #84
godmode2019 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sure, but where is the line between bad first product and being a scammer.

As a dev my first products are generally pretty average and my prices are high to filter to people that actually want the solution I'm selling.

My opinions is being a scammer you have the intention to take someone's money with out delivering any marketed value.

So there is the problem who can comment on someone intention.

I remember when coffeezila went after a youtuber who created a course. It was his first course but he sold 2 millions worth, everyone's first course sucks, he was unlucky enough to have a lot of people buy his first product. Then be labeled a scammer by drama channels because it wasn't university quality content.

These people are producing nothing themselves just amplifying problems in other people.

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

#103

Post by stareatgoats »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #71
jazzyjackson wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.””

There was a great series of videos on this called "Contrepreneur Bingo" by Mike Winnet. He took on all the usual suspects - Tai Lopez, Dan Lok, Dan Pena, Tony Robbins, Grant Cardone... Unfortunately it looks they all got pulled from youtube. Not on bitchute either.

Not sure who you refer to as being pulled, but looks like Mike Winnet is still up at least, good thing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UComkllJTMHNZr4UNxCThdcw

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

#104

Post by dgb23 »

esrh wrote: post #56
jazzyjackson wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.””

If you think about it that video is really a masterclass in how to instantly capture advertising audience attention. I'm willing to bet that ad had magnitudes lower skip rates than 99% of other YouTube ads.

I agree. I‘m guilty of doing so, because I found them bizarre and impudent. They are like a window into another grotesque and worrisome world, but I still had to look.

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

#105

Post by Apocryphon »

godmode2019 wrote: post #102
Apocryphon wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sure, but where is the line between bad first product and being a scammer. As a dev my first products are generally pretty average and my prices are high to filter to people that actually want the solution I'm selling. My opinions is being a scammer you have the intention to take someone's money with out delivering any marketed value. So there is the problem who can comment on someone intention. I remember when coffe…

Coffeezilla himself has become a brand and puts out a ton of content, some I’m sure of dubious accuracy. But overall it’s pretty damn easy to tell whether or not these YouTube ad classes, not unlike the late night infomercials of yesteryear, are selling a fake bill of goods. Many use obviously fraudulent tactics. They don’t peddle dev courses but obvious get rich quick schemes. Drama channels are the closest thing to muckrakers or even regulators in our deregulated scam-spam choked internet. I shed no tears for someone who made $2m from a bad course whether the quality was intentional or not. He can go cry in Tai Lopez’s garage.

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

#106

Post by liaukovv »

dgb23 wrote: post #101
Kiro wrote: post #92

After watching his videos on this, it's pretty obvious to me that he created the coin as a joke/satire to show the absurdity. Yet most comments are talking seriously about this and comparing it to actual pump'n'dump scams. What's the deal?

The deal is that he is a comedian first but also gives advice that is often superficial but serious enough so there is some value to it for beginner developers. It’s both satire and seemingly genuine encouragement. Most importantly he seems to be very good at YouTube marketing. Apparently many have watched his videos, even in this crowd, which means he knows how to attract views. My intuition is that this is a stunt,…

That's what makes it funny.

If there was no ambiguity then it would be just really boring channel.

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

#107

Post by [deleted] »

yoz-y wrote: post #90
pengwing wrote: post #68

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

#108

Post by underwater »

tolbish wrote: post #30
alephnan wrote: post #22

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”

These are not incredibly hard traits to identify upon talking with people. The problem is when you willingly dance with the devil because of how much value he delivers.

They say that a true narcicist is easy to spot, because they're not trying to hide their behaviours.

In plenty of interviews I've had the "this person seems difficult to work with" vibe. In the few situations where I've hired that person, the reality has been much worse than I expected.

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

#109

Post by charsi »

exdsq wrote: post #96
ozzythecat wrote: post #8

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…

Narcissist sociopath. I'm a huge fan of dry humor (and British) so should be able to read sarcasm or dry humor but he just annoys me. Putting "as a millioaire" in video titles is the most crass thing I've seen.

I think you are missing the joke. The crassness of plastering "as a millionaire" everywhere is a joke on its own. Sort of a parody on other tubers who throw in similar catch phrases. In his early videos he talked about how being a "millionaire" isn't actually that uncommon. Now it is a meme to the viewers of the channel.

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

#110

Post by 3grdlurker »

liaukovv wrote: post #106
dgb23 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The deal is that he is a comedian first but also gives advice that is often superficial but serious enough so there is some value to it for beginner developers. It’s both satire and seemingly genuine encouragement. Most importantly he seems to be very good at YouTube marketing. Apparently many have watched his videos, even in this crowd, which means he knows how to attract views. My intuition is that this is a stunt,…

That's what makes it funny. If there was no ambiguity then it would be just really boring channel.

I mean, if people acknowledge that there’s ambiguity then how can others argue with absolute certainty that he’s just being satirical?
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