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How long until YCombinator stops listing Flock "Safety" on their website as one of their proud VC success stories? [1] https://www.ycombinator.com https://www.
by willturman 7mo ago
How long until YCombinator stops listing Flock "Safety" on their website as one of their proud VC success stories?
[1] https://www.ycombinator.com https://www.ycombinator.com
- propagandist 7mo agoThe new leadership (Tan) is utterly shameless and free of moral constraints. I wouldn't count on it.
- cyanydeez 7mo agoYeah, the idea that YC will disown unfettered capitalism seems dreamy.
- CobrastanJorji 7mo agoFlock was valued at $7.5 billion last year, and it's probably worth more now. It's absolutely one of YCombinator's success stories. YCombinator's goal is to make a lot of money by causing there to be more startups, and therefore more successor startups. "Make the world a better place" is not one of their success metrics. They're investors, not altruists.
- soperj 7mo agoIt's only a success if all you care about is money.
- LadyCailin 7mo agoWhich is all a great deal of people in America care about, yes.
- unclad5968 7mo agoThey could also care about mass surveillance.
- DavidPiper 7mo agoThey do. The political and economic environment (edit: in the US) is currently supporting the idea that mass surveillance is an extremely lucrative investment opportunity.
- mikkupikku 7mo agoThis is YC we're talking about. They'd fund payday loans with organs as collateral for African orphans if they could. Seriously, they have NO scruples. (And yes, I know where I am.)
- cucumber3732842 7mo agoThat sounds like honest business compared to getting paid by the government to circumvent the laws that prevent the state from spying on it's own citizens at scale.
- CobrastanJorji 7mo agoYes. Therefore, for Y Combinator, this is a success story.
- OGEnthusiast 7mo ago[dead]
- computerthings 7mo ago[dead]
- dyauspitr 7mo agoHunh, didn’t know flock was ycomb.
- john_strinlai 7mo agonever, it is a shining success when viewed through the eyes of venture capital
- altairprime 7mo agoWhy would they? There’s no “pro-social” enforcement in their funding terms, so they’re just as “morals aren’t applicable to profit” as any off-the-shelf C-corp is. If they required their startups to found B-corps then I’d understand trying to apply human ethical concerns to them, but they don’t, so human morals simply don't apply.
- lm28469 7mo agoIt prints money and harvest data, the holy grail basically, why would they remove it
- rvz 7mo agoNever. We should not expect any VC no matter how big or small to care.