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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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"Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to ‘cheat on everything’"
https://bsky.app/profile/hypervisible.bsky.social/post/3lne5zqaxyc2c
I’m sure whoever put money into that venture will see dramatically amazing returns, now there’s a founder that will not take the money and run.
There's an article about it at 404 media now. A few quotes from the founder guy:
And he gets millions of investment... just deranged late-stage bubble stuff. It's sad to think how much good $5.3 million could do, e.g. for actual education, and instead it's blasted away for creating such garbage.
the associated “date” video is so multi-dimensionally cringe it had me reaching for numpy