Pretty disgusting behavior from the founders just posting as normal on linkedin/twitter as if this is run-of-the-mill. Fraudsters need to be nipped in the bud, lest we get trump-like scenarios.
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#142YC needs to go back to how it was. Choosing those who know what they are doing, and have been in the game for long and not blindly choose those who have graduated from tier-1 institutions. University degrees mean nothing at the end of the day.
And please stop investing in slop/wrappers. They do not solve World's problems.
I feel there has been complacency set into investing in general where investors are chasing quick money (first crypto and now AI slop) over solving hard/grueling problems that take a long time to fix but have huge returns down the line.
And we have a lot of tough problems that still need solving. AI won't magically fix that, despite being a great tool.
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#143waiting on the cluely scandal next
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> I ignore the law every day when I jaywalk Not illegal here, but I hope you not complain when caught and fined.
Jaywalking was illegal in NYC until 2025 but literally every crossing had people doing it constantly. This is not figurative, it actually is literal.
Including people doing it in front of police. Including the police themselves!
The law only existed for police to harass and fine blacks and Latinos. And indeed, that was how it was struck down.
It is critical to a just society that victims of unjust laws or uneven enforcement complain!
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Have you considered whistleblowing?
Yes. But I'm not working at either company and I'm 99.9% sure that it would lead to absolutely nothing other than a lot of misery for myself. The NDA's I sign have some pretty stiff penalties attached. I was actually hoping to see my trust in the auditing company confirmed and I'm still more than a little bit annoyed that they did not respond in a more constructive way.
My response however is a simple one: I used to steer (a lot of) business their way and I have stopped doing that.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You should check out the banking industry sometime if you'd like to interact with a competent auditor. Compliance gets taken quite seriously in an industry where one of your principal regulatory bodies has the power to unilaterally absorb your business and defenestrate your entire leadership team in the middle of the night.
They could. But they don't.
I've seen this up close. The regulatory bodies as a rule are understaffed, overworked and underpaid. I'm sure they'd love to do a much better job but the reality is that there are just too many ways to give them busywork allowing the real crap to go unnoticed until it is (much) too late.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I wish them well" is an idiom for "I never want to see them again". Kinda like "bless your heart", which means nothing of the sort.
Why do non-Southerners keep insisting on this? Bless your heart can be said sincerely or ironically, like pretty much any other phrase.
The ironic usage makes for compelling dialogue and comports with stereotypes about Southerners as formal/restrained. So that's what ends up on television. At least that is how I think I came about having that impression.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If you care about this stuff you need to in-house auditing and do your own audits with people who care. Then get certified by an external auditor for the paper. You can start very lightweight with doing spec driven development with the help of AI if you're at a size where you can't afford that. It's better than nothing. But the important part is you, as a company, should inherently care. If you rely on an auditor fee…
To be honest, I would even go further: if you think certification equals security, you are even more lost.
So many controls are dubious, sometimes even actively harmful for some set-ups/situations.
And even moreso, it's also perfectly feasible to pass the gates with a burning pile of trash.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you care about this stuff you need to in-house auditing and do your own audits with people who care. Then get certified by an external auditor for the paper. You can start very lightweight with doing spec driven development with the help of AI if you're at a size where you can't afford that. It's better than nothing. But the important part is you, as a company, should inherently care. If you rely on an auditor fee…
To be honest, I would even go further: if you think certification equals security, you are even more lost. So many controls are dubious, sometimes even actively harmful for some set-ups/situations. And even moreso, it's also perfectly feasible to pass the gates with a burning pile of trash.
And they do not track the industry at all, at best they'll help you win the war of five years ago.
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#150This other profile is still up: https://www.forbes.com/profile/delve/ 30U30 never ceases to amaze.
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