No the biggest ycombinator scandal is Scam Altman
YC's Biggest Scandals
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#72I like how you need to tap the spoiler tags to show the text which works as a link to the individual page where you need to again unveil the spoilers
I like that too. And by "like", I mean "absolutely can't stand." Made the site unusable for me.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t understand this whole idea that we are going to not having drone and autonomous weapons. Ukraine is being fought with drones. It’s the first drone war. 300k people have died in the Russian side alone. 1 million casualties. How do you suggest we stop the lessons from the first major drone war from spreading? With hope? Prayers? The terrifying thing about it is - the US is actually already behind on this techno…
Many civilians have seen how drones were used in Lebanon and Gaza, and hesitate to trust Western leadership with that type of kill chain. It's a borderline certainty that 9 Mothers employees will eventually contribute to the death of an innocent protestor or journalist that opposed the state.
Would you rather everyone except NATO had these capabilities?
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#75I have a weird question on a tangent. If you spend 100k daily, it will take you 27 years to burn a billon dollar. Make it 3 billion and age expectancy around 80 years. What are you going to do with 100 billion net worth? Money that you cannot spend in your life time and there's no guarantee your offspring can handle well.
No theology, that's all mythology anyway. Just a thought.
I guess mostly it is about ego and vanity. I am better, superior, powerful and more capable and smart then you are. About 100 billion dollar smarter than you are?
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#76agree with the other commenter.. YC has funded more than 5000 companies. I feel like this is a massive stretch and unfair
regardless, the biggest flex you can do these days is bootstrap and own 100% of your company as long as you can
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#77This is one of the most annoying click-baity mechanism I have ever come across.
Of course we normally edit clickbait titles, but we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or YC startups are the story*, so I've refrained from doing that here.
Given that not all of the "scandals" listed on that page are even YC companies, the minimum we'd normally do is add a question mark to the end of the title, but I'm going to refrain from that too.
* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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#78YC has funded over 5000 companies, and this page catalogs 39 that failed, many of which, on the sites own terms, are simply business failures, with no additional drama. I don't think the authors of the site realize the case they're actually making here.
Which is why these critical pieces are important, so that this proportion doesn't increase. YC should stand these criticisms lest it become a religion of sorts.
If YC had a chance of being a "religion of sorts" it would have been about Paul Graham, that ship sailed a decade ago.
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#79Pretty clearly slop, with some of the scandals make no sense. Take Ripplings "scandal": > Parker Conrad's redemption arc after Zenefits hit a plot twist when Rippling sued competitor Deel for planting an undercover spy inside Rippling who was paid €5,000/month by Deel's CEO to steal trade secrets . The DOJ opened a criminal investigation. Deel allegedly ran the same playbook at crypto HR startup Toku. YC uses Ripplin…
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
... so don't defend against the slaughterbots? (I don't know anything about the company we're discussing here, but this is a weird premise.)
That means 18 year olds will get splattered. I'm not for that. The kids who die in the military are just kids, regardless of their job. They aren't personally responsible for the shit orders they get. The problem is that anything made for defense is almost inherently useful for offense, and the US is not the most trustworthy government right now. It's, sadly, not inconceivable that an automatic turret mounted shotgun…
Sorry, so what's your position here? Are you for or against people working on anti-combat-drone technology?
The comment you're replying to is pointing out the oddity of being anti-good-thing because somebody might one day invert their company's mission entirely.