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Re: Delve removed from Y Combinator

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Post by jacquesm »

maxbond wrote: post #34

I'm getting the impression that a lot of people in this thread think this is because they violated an open-source license and saying things to the effect of, "they're just the ones who got caught". I also thought that was the scandal initially. (And when it comes to license violations, yes, there's absolutely more where that came from.) But that's just the cherry on top. I don't think they're being thrown out because…

I came across a top tier compliance auditor doing the same thing recently. I tried to talk to them about it and rather than approaching this from a constructive point of view they wanted to know the name of the company that got certified so they could decertify them and essentially asked me to break my NDA. That wasn't going to happen, I wanted to have a far more structural conversation about this and how they probably ended up missing some major items (such as: having non-technical auditors). They weren't interested. They were not at all interested in improving their processes, they were only interested in protecting their reputation.

I'm seriously disgusted about this because this was one of the very few auditors that we held in pretty high esteem.

Pay-to-play is all too common, and I think that there is a baked in conflict of interest in the whole model.

Re: Delve removed from Y Combinator

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Post by whilenot-dev »

gnabgib wrote: post #2

Related: Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own (295 points, yesterday, 153 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615434

More likely related: Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service (836 points, 14 days ago, 323 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444319

Re: Delve removed from Y Combinator

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Post by trhway »

johnwheeler wrote: post #103
maxbond wrote: post #34

I'm getting the impression that a lot of people in this thread think this is because they violated an open-source license and saying things to the effect of, "they're just the ones who got caught". I also thought that was the scandal initially. (And when it comes to license violations, yes, there's absolutely more where that came from.) But that's just the cherry on top. I don't think they're being thrown out because…

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it may be anybody. Even somebody at YC wanting to create a background to drop Delve if suppose Delve were shady and they discovered it (i really don't know anything here and am simply speculating, heard about Delve today first time, just googled and read some techcrunch article - it says Delve has 1000 clients - googled employee count - sub-50, and until it is "an Uber for auditors" i have hard time to believe that 50 Silicon Valley people can do even one compliance certification for one client, with AI or without)

Re: Delve removed from Y Combinator

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Post by vasco »

jacquesm wrote: post #112
maxbond wrote: post #34

I'm getting the impression that a lot of people in this thread think this is because they violated an open-source license and saying things to the effect of, "they're just the ones who got caught". I also thought that was the scandal initially. (And when it comes to license violations, yes, there's absolutely more where that came from.) But that's just the cherry on top. I don't think they're being thrown out because…

I came across a top tier compliance auditor doing the same thing recently. I tried to talk to them about it and rather than approaching this from a constructive point of view they wanted to know the name of the company that got certified so they could decertify them and essentially asked me to break my NDA. That wasn't going to happen, I wanted to have a far more structural conversation about this and how they probab…

It's auditing, nobody that is good at doing anything goes to auditing, unfortunately its one of those jobs. I haven't interacted with any auditor that actually understood all they were auditing, some are better than others but the average is worse than almost any other job description I have dealt with.

Re: Delve removed from Y Combinator

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Post by jweir »

johnwheeler wrote: post #103
maxbond wrote: post #34

I'm getting the impression that a lot of people in this thread think this is because they violated an open-source license and saying things to the effect of, "they're just the ones who got caught". I also thought that was the scandal initially. (And when it comes to license violations, yes, there's absolutely more where that came from.) But that's just the cherry on top. I don't think they're being thrown out because…

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If you see a fraud and do nothing you are part of the fraud.
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