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Re: Delve removed from Y Combinator

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Usually on a Friday night. If you see a bunch of rental cars hanging out near a bank HQ on a Friday afternoon, get all your money out before the doors close. FDIC is about to wreck shop.

They do it on a Friday so they can work through the weekend and reopen the bank on Monday as a branch of a different bank which is solvent, so I wouldn't worry too much. I'd be more worried about putting my money in a fintech not regulated by FDIC or NCUA (though many contract with a "real" bank so that your money is still protected).

That’s fine for your checking account which FDIC likely covers. But if they merge it into another bank and you have a payroll account there with 2MM sitting in it, you can have a real problem. People use JPMC, with all its fees, for a reason.

Re: Delve removed from Y Combinator

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No NDA can prevent you from making protected communications about fraud, illegal activity, etc. If you have seen fraud that involves the military you can make an anonymous report to the DOD IG. If it involves medical data you can make an anonymous report to the HHS IG. Or, if you want to get rich off of it, there's another option. Happy to chat.

"Get rich off it" sounds shady as hell. What are you offering?

Federal Tort Claims Act if they defrauded the government. You get a cut of the recovery. Helps to find the right firm to file. Can’t really do pro se.

Re: Delve removed from Y Combinator

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We need a page to whistleblower dishonest startups. I know a startup where one of the cofounders is literally illegally working for it. We have people working in cafes getting into trouble but not start up cofounders raising tons of money. Seems so unfair.I am pretty sure the female in the husband-wife pair does not have authorization to work.

Re: Delve removed from Y Combinator

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Someone leaked an internal Bookface chat from Garry Tan (YC CEO) saying: We have asked Delve to leave YC. YC is a community, not just an accelerator. The founders in our community have to trust each other, and we have to trust them. When that trust breaks down, there's really only one thing to do. We're not going to get into the details publicly. We wish them well. https://x.com/___4o____/status/2040271468874076380 I…

"They've betrayed my trust but I wish them well" is an interesting statement.

they're all in the betraying trust industry so they can't take it personally
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