How Segment survived its brush with death to become a customer data unicorn • Hacker News Board

Re: How Segment survived its brush with death to become a customer data unicorn

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Post by rshnotsecure » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 10:24 AM UTC

This is a front company controlled by a foreign government in part. Their security / cloud team is made up of former Credit Karma engineers.

In regards to Credit Karma, they are funded by Tiger Global Management. Tiger Global Management is quite an interesting company. Their SSL organization is currently on 16 million certs worldwide. With the 2nd most being in Russia and the 3rd most in Ukraine. This can be looked up right now on Shodan. Simply enter “Tiger Global Management, LLC”.

I along with two reporters separately have reached out to them over the past 2-3 months. They have not responded to any comment or made any changes.

Private equity firms are buying out hosting and domain registration companies en-masse. This is what happened during the .ORG. Ethol Capital is lol a fake company. They had 2 employees on LinkedIn as of a few weeks ago.

Look at Mailgun.org btw which you might notice Segment uses (also recently acquired by private equity firm out of San Antonio). Exactly why does one of their DNS records point to Culliganwaterllc.com in Coeur De Alene, Idaho of all places? For god sakes these people were involved in a major hacking incident in April.

This is not a theory so much as it is a collection of pressing questions that demand an explanation.

Re: How Segment survived its brush with death to become a customer data unicorn

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Post by noelwelsh » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 11:15 AM UTC

rshnotsecure wrote: post #11

This is a front company controlled by a foreign government in part. Their security / cloud team is made up of former Credit Karma engineers. In regards to Credit Karma, they are funded by Tiger Global Management. Tiger Global Management is quite an interesting company. Their SSL organization is currently on 16 million certs worldwide. With the 2nd most being in Russia and the 3rd most in Ukraine. This can be looked u…

I really don't understand what you are trying to say.

Re: How Segment survived its brush with death to become a customer data unicorn

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Post by eganist » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 12:01 PM UTC

noelwelsh wrote: post #12

rshnotsecure wrote: post #11

This is a front company controlled by a foreign government in part. Their security / cloud team is made up of former Credit Karma engineers. In regards to Credit Karma, they are funded by Tiger Global Management. Tiger Global Management is quite an interesting company. Their SSL organization is currently on 16 million certs worldwide. With the 2nd most being in Russia and the 3rd most in Ukraine. This can be looked u…

I really don't understand what you are trying to say.

Winding, conspiratorial comments like this that come with no evidence are usually better off flagged than anything else.

Re: How Segment survived its brush with death to become a customer data unicorn

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Post by bobosha » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 1:37 PM UTC

This is an all-too-common story with startups, as PG points out in several essays. Often startups only make sense looking back, and don't lend themselves to business-plans & analytics.