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This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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Re: This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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Post by andytratt »

bigyabai wrote: post #73
andytratt wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

as the post says, i financially cannot afford to leave (personal philosophy is to have net worth go up at all times) thanks for the curiosity - i believe curiosity leads all SF dwellers to great success and wealth over time. never stop asking questions. in public.

> i believe curiosity leads all SF dwellers to great success and wealth over time. There are tens of thousands of SF dwellers that believe the same thing, and end up flipping burgers to afford rent in a shoebox. If this is the same philosophy that you bring into the workplace then I understand why you're treated like a liability.

i do in fact flip burgers in my shoebox thank you Simple AI for helping me move here. haha

Re: This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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throwaday0451 wrote: post #68

Why did you include emails threatening to blackmail Simple AI to get more money ("wondering what a fair exit package looks like ... and what I should post on Linkedin to update my network"), then indicating that after you received $20K in payment, you "wouldn't bother" them? All of this following a him-or-me demand email. And then making this post? It's a pattern of self-destructive behavior. The best possible course…

excuse me you are accusing me in public of threatening and blackmailing someone? that's pretty serious. sounds a bit libelous or slanderous or something aggressive.

throwaday0451 as you characterize me as a blackmailer, are you sure you don't mean "negotiating" or "communicating"?

if so your words are injurous and damage me. do you have a lawyer i can talk to about this public defamation of my language and mischaracterizing me on Hackernews?

Re: This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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Post by andytratt »

throwaday0451 wrote: post #68

Why did you include emails threatening to blackmail Simple AI to get more money ("wondering what a fair exit package looks like ... and what I should post on Linkedin to update my network"), then indicating that after you received $20K in payment, you "wouldn't bother" them? All of this following a him-or-me demand email. And then making this post? It's a pattern of self-destructive behavior. The best possible course…

also are you saying i'm antagonizing someone, if so what's your evidence? i'm flagging this comment. i think it's egregiously offensive and against HN terms of service.

Re: This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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Post by andytratt »

reticulates wrote: post #69

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thank you reticulates for anonymously posting the truth to an account. did you make this account just to comment? following is good on the internet. hiring is BYOR = bring your own risk.

i agree with this assessment. i think it applies to all hires you background check or not.

hiring is an important and undervalued thing to do. people should do it with care.

Re: This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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Post by andytratt »

reticulates wrote: post #70
reticulates wrote: post #69

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and since it’s mentioned in the post, it feels fair game to call it out: Andy has revised his experience up over the years, from working at Scale to running support at scale to founding a team at Scale… he was an early employee who did some customer support. Presumably Simple got caught up in Andy’s impressive revisionism.

i did very little to impact scale's success and have publicly stated i deserve absolutely zero equity even less than the 0.01% i was initially offered (please compare with others who started same day as me Jeffrey Li for instance)

then the 0.02% Richard ni offered to double it to on the day i resigned with Sara Niyogi in the room as a witness as Richard's hands visibly shook on a routine firing of an employee...

it was sad and easy and pathetic for all of us. i was particularly immature and idiotic in how i handled that. please see my numerous blog posts on scale ai or use grok to find a list of them.

i was not paid severance at scale ai. i resigned. totally different situation. thanks for bringing it up Reticulates.

here are ones off the top of my head: - andys.blog/rare most recently - https://thenextlevelcareers.com/lessons-in-rejection-turning... (someone else wrote this) - https://world.hey.com/tratt/my-5m-choice-036905be (this one actually got a lot of emails from random people - wow thanks for sharing so brave helped me move on from the job i didn't like even tho i had golden handcuffs etc etc) - https://trattner.github.io/Scale-AI.html - i think this was the best one probably, i wrote it after doing the initial interviews on my 3rd attempt to get hired. thankfully Rilka / Angela didn't blacklist me after i failed that one coding challenge in js haha andytrattner.com/scale - the google doodle thing its on github somewhere - https://trattner.github.io/decade-reflections-2020.html this certaintly touches the scale ai days but i dont think it was directly mentioned here just for more context for the public you want to show the world my insanity about thanks

BTW i think all of this is ridiculous to outline in grave detail. anyone with a good enough memory who cares is at this point liquid, exited, under different management.

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Post by ElProlactin »

reticulates wrote: post #69

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> I don’t mean that as a slight against him, lots of great people are insane...

This guy's comments here are consistent with a person going through a serious mental health crisis, not eccentricity. Hopefully someone who knows him personally will see this and get him some help.

Re: This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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Post by andytratt »

ElProlactin wrote: post #86
reticulates wrote: post #69

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> I don’t mean that as a slight against him, lots of great people are insane... This guy's comments here are consistent with a person going through a serious mental health crisis, not eccentricity. Hopefully someone who knows him personally will see this and get him some help.

girlfriend is on the case. we are good. thanks

Re: This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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Post by andytratt »

reticulates wrote: post #70
reticulates wrote: post #69

[flagged]

and since it’s mentioned in the post, it feels fair game to call it out: Andy has revised his experience up over the years, from working at Scale to running support at scale to founding a team at Scale… he was an early employee who did some customer support. Presumably Simple got caught up in Andy’s impressive revisionism.

Dave Morse and Varun (later Toan, great FDE i learnt a lot from him about many things at both Scale AI and Anduril)

they hired me and kept me on the team and tried to get me not to leave ever by being kind managers

because i did support in slack and was a human Pylon and it was nothing. they were small tickets and API integrations. trivial for claude today.

as i said i did nothing. truly very little. my contributions to training openai or chatGPT or whatever roomers you here or hear or whatever are dump dumb hallucinations. sam altman can confirm rofl

Re: This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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Post by andytratt »

reticulates wrote: post #70
reticulates wrote: post #69

[flagged]

and since it’s mentioned in the post, it feels fair game to call it out: Andy has revised his experience up over the years, from working at Scale to running support at scale to founding a team at Scale… he was an early employee who did some customer support. Presumably Simple got caught up in Andy’s impressive revisionism.

anyone who helps me get cancelled is doing the world a favor honestly
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