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Why not frame things from the perspective of rewarding good performance? I am sure this will get bought by companies looking to squeeze their workers…and I will not be surprised if this leads to worse outcomes for staff and employers in the medium to long term. The launch video was disgraceful.
This guy knows marketing. Agreed it would not have been as controversial
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Hi Kushal and/or Vivaan, "The world is trash" is not an excuse to make it worse, and this kind of statement only digs you a bigger hole. This is not the end of your startup, it could just be a bumpy start if you are able to find a different angle for this technology and turn the boat around. It could be a really nice story tbh, you have the whole world looking at you which is the most difficult thing! No publicity is…
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Hi Kushal and/or Vivaan, "The world is trash" is not an excuse to make it worse, and this kind of statement only digs you a bigger hole. This is not the end of your startup, it could just be a bumpy start if you are able to find a different angle for this technology and turn the boat around. It could be a really nice story tbh, you have the whole world looking at you which is the most difficult thing! No publicity is…
They seem to be rich kids, so I half can’t blame them for having a disgustingly warped moral compass, but this “startup” is trash and cannot be saved.
Hopefully this motivates them to actually do something positive for the world.
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Hi Kushal and/or Vivaan, "The world is trash" is not an excuse to make it worse, and this kind of statement only digs you a bigger hole. This is not the end of your startup, it could just be a bumpy start if you are able to find a different angle for this technology and turn the boat around. It could be a really nice story tbh, you have the whole world looking at you which is the most difficult thing! No publicity is…
In what world can this tech be spun in a good way? It’s over for them, at least for their startup at the minimum. The aspect of squeezing metrics out of workers is intrinsic to what they’ve built. They seem to be rich kids, so I half can’t blame them for having a disgustingly warped moral compass, but this “startup” is trash and cannot be saved. Hopefully this motivates them to actually do something positive for the…
Plenty of possibilities.
We'll see!
PS. What's up with all these crappy throwaway accounts? We are not discussing anything even remotely delicate, lol.
Sure seems like a little bit of exposure to third-world conditions is making a lot of first-world people here uncomfortable.
Why not frame things from the perspective of rewarding good performance? I am sure this will get bought by companies looking to squeeze their workers…and I will not be surprised if this leads to worse outcomes for staff and employers in the medium to long term. The launch video was disgraceful.
Using humans in pipelines irrevocably sets this kind of dynamic up, sadly.
This is getting HUGE exposure on Xwitter right now. YC is backtracking on them and rightly so. I don't blame them, they probably pitched something relatively ok-ish; today's demo is just a disaster from every angle. Incidentally, this also shows why 2020s YC is a different beast than 2010s YC, they don't really care about your startup, they don't even really know what is it about, its just a pure numbers game at this…
It is not. Lots of exposure. Those who complain were not customers. Those who are potential customers don't care about comments on twitter.
Can argue backlash hurts YC but for the company itself probably helps in long run.