> We are committed to protecting human privacy and mitigating bias in policing with the development of best-in-class technology rooted in ethical design, which unites civilians and public servants in pursuit of a safer, more equitable society.
…and of course they do the exact opposite. All a bunch of bullshit from inception.
Y combinator has funded a significant portion of the most harmful tech companies of this century. They're profoundly amoral, just like you'd expect from a profitable venture capital firm.
On the bright side, they also hire dang, so that's one against 100 million.
To be honest, I have personally funded almost all of the most harmful companies that are around today, too.
But that's because I funded pretty much all the companies via my investment in an index fund.
YC pretty much takes something like an index fund approach to startups: they finance a lot of them. So naturally they would also have a significant portion of what you deem to be harmful ones.
Given YC's leadership over the past decade or so, I don't think they have anything they'd want to speak up about. This is probably all fine with them.
I used to hold YC in very high regard, but these days I don't think they're materially different from any other investing shop when it comes to values.
It's also interesting Garry Tan (YC Partner) has a lot of comments for the masses when it's on a one sided platform like X. But, will never engage here. Oh the irony.
He seems to enjoy spreading factually misguided "statistics" [0] about how Flock is "solving crime". OK buddy.
I mean, just look at how he enagages with those replies. If that's at the helm of YC? WTF.
He and the entire tech ecosystem is in a bubble where being as right wing as possible is currency. Literally middle of the road liberal pg is basically a communist compared to this ecosystem now. It’s extremely short sighted on their part as the dialectic is guaranteed to flip back the other way. Much better to hold your own genuine beliefs than to kowtow to whatever is popular at the time
> We are committed to protecting human privacy and mitigating bias in policing with the development of best-in-class technology rooted in ethical design, which unites civilians and public servants in pursuit of a safer, more equitable society.
…and of course they do the exact opposite. All a bunch of bullshit from inception.
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Which really makes me sad that no one from YCombinator is speaking up. It’s all about money.
Y combinator has funded a significant portion of the most harmful tech companies of this century. They're profoundly amoral, just like you'd expect from a profitable venture capital firm.
On the bright side, they also hire dang, so that's one against 100 million.
And the few that have gone public have done awful
https://medium.com/@Arakunrin/the-post-ipo-performance-of-y-...
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To be honest, I have personally funded almost all of the most harmful companies that are around today, too.
But that's because I funded pretty much all the companies via my investment in an index fund.
YC pretty much takes something like an index fund approach to startups: they finance a lot of them. So naturally they would also have a significant portion of what you deem to be harmful ones.
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Given YC's leadership over the past decade or so, I don't think they have anything they'd want to speak up about. This is probably all fine with them.
I used to hold YC in very high regard, but these days I don't think they're materially different from any other investing shop when it comes to values.
YC seeming like more and more of a joke since AI took off
YC had been funding Flock for six years before LLMs took off.
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This is extremely disappointing. Absolutely turned off applying for or working for any YC companies now.
It's also interesting Garry Tan (YC Partner) has a lot of comments for the masses when it's on a one sided platform like X. But, will never engage here. Oh the irony.
He seems to enjoy spreading factually misguided "statistics" [0] about how Flock is "solving crime". OK buddy.
I mean, just look at how he enagages with those replies. If that's at the helm of YC? WTF.
[0] https://x.com/garrytan/status/1963256544524640456
He and the entire tech ecosystem is in a bubble where being as right wing as possible is currency. Literally middle of the road liberal pg is basically a communist compared to this ecosystem now. It’s extremely short sighted on their part as the dialectic is guaranteed to flip back the other way. Much better to hold your own genuine beliefs than to kowtow to whatever is popular at the time
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VC firms are behind the police state and the break down in world order in general.
YC is not the good guy in this world.