but areas i am familiar with can consider a negative reference to be defamation, thus anyone providing a negative reference should only do so if they are able to defend it (i.e. prove their statement is substantially true, or prove that the statement was honestly believed to be true and published with no malice or reckless disregard).
seems risky, at least, to build a whole business around negative references that could potentially cross the line into defamation. but that type of thinking is probably why i am not rich.
Same. While it doesn't help that their name is about as generic as it gets, I searched across Kagi, Google, etc. and couldn't find any such YC company.
That being said, it wouldn't entirely surprise me if somebody's tried to start the tech equivalent of the casino "Black Book".
> Y Combinator is starting a blacklist for venture capitalists accused of sexual harassment: "'We don’t call it a blacklist, but that is essentially what is happening,” Kat Manalac, a partner at the influential start-up incubator Y Combinator, said of the blast email.
There are some mentions online of a Y Combinator startup called Bad News, but nothing official or well-documented shows up in public YC lists or press — at least as of the latest searchable sources.
The only place it’s referenced is in a Hacker News thread where someone claimed there was a YC company whose product was a blacklist of employees so other startups wouldn’t hire them, and they said the name was Bad News. But people in that thread couldn’t find any evidence of it, and there aren’t real search results tying that name to an official YC company on YC’s site, their startup directory, or mainstream reports.
How would that even be legal? (Although I can't find such a startup with any kind of search engine)
Why would it be illegal?
i am not sure of anywhere it is illegal.
but areas i am familiar with can consider a negative reference to be defamation, thus anyone providing a negative reference should only do so if they are able to defend it (i.e. prove their statement is substantially true, or prove that the statement was honestly believed to be true and published with no malice or reckless disregard).
seems risky, at least, to build a whole business around negative references that could potentially cross the line into defamation. but that type of thinking is probably why i am not rich.
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I can't find any website for it. Are you sure it's not just some posting category on Bookface, YC's internal social network?
Same. While it doesn't help that their name is about as generic as it gets, I searched across Kagi, Google, etc. and couldn't find any such YC company.
That being said, it wouldn't entirely surprise me if somebody's tried to start the tech equivalent of the casino "Black Book".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Book_(gambling)
Might be this:
> Y Combinator is starting a blacklist for venture capitalists accused of sexual harassment: "'We don’t call it a blacklist, but that is essentially what is happening,” Kat Manalac, a partner at the influential start-up incubator Y Combinator, said of the blast email.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenfeldman/2017/07/17/todays-...
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GPT:
There are some mentions online of a Y Combinator startup called Bad News, but nothing official or well-documented shows up in public YC lists or press — at least as of the latest searchable sources.
The only place it’s referenced is in a Hacker News thread where someone claimed there was a YC company whose product was a blacklist of employees so other startups wouldn’t hire them, and they said the name was Bad News. But people in that thread couldn’t find any evidence of it, and there aren’t real search results tying that name to an official YC company on YC’s site, their startup directory, or mainstream reports.
> According to chatgpt
Oh come on.
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Why are you obfuscating so much and telling people to use ChatGPT? How hard would it be to paste what they renamed to and/or the founders' names?
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