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Re: Delve removed from Y Combinator

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Post by everfrustrated »

Someone leaked an internal Bookface chat from Garry Tan (YC CEO) saying:

  We have asked Delve to leave YC.

  YC is a community, not just an accelerator. The founders in our community have to trust each other, and we have to trust them. When that trust breaks down, there's really only one thing to do.

  We're not going to get into the details publicly. We wish them well.
https://x.com/___4o____/status/2040271468874076380

I have no direct knowledge of the accuracy of any of this. This is not my account.

Re: Delve removed from Y Combinator

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Post by tjwebbnorfolk »

borski wrote: post #30
TurdF3rguson wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Ignoring a law is different from knowingly and intentionally breaking the law Huh? In a legal sense I'm pretty sure they're the same thing.

I ignore the law every day when I jaywalk. Technically, you’re right that that is also breaking the law. I wasn’t being careful with my words. How and why matters, though.

There is a difference between "fake it till you make it" and "blatant widespread fraud", but the line is blurrier than many startups would like to admit.

Re: Delve removed from Y Combinator

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Post by claaams »

mikert89 wrote: post #16
carabiner wrote: post #7

Bye-bye tweet from founder: https://x.com/kocalars/status/2040262537166618887 Notably YC hasn't wished them a farewell.

funny thing about this tweet is the founder still couldnt stop herself from name dropping MIT

Much like their soc audits, her time at MIT was also incomplete. Still doesn’t stop them from cosplaying as a grad though!

Re: Delve removed from Y Combinator

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Post by Pxtl »

bilalq wrote: post #11

While I do think Delve and the leadership there should be held responsible, it's a bit weird to see YC and others take shots at them for breaking the law when so many of their prized unicorns achieved what they did by being willing to just ignore laws and deal with the consequences later.

They broke laws that programmers care about.

Like, it's a company that sells AI-slop powered regulatory compliance. How many laws do you think the "fake it ill you make it and you'll never make it" AI will break? But "regulatory compliance" is laws that startups hate, so breaking them is good.

Copyright and the copyleft licenses built upon it are the laws that support the software industry instead of just making sure innocent people aren't hurt by all this innovating and disrupting.

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