General Catalyst just co-led a $31.5 million seed round into a blatant rip-off of my company, Kled.
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I would typically not speak on things like this, but this level of blatant copycatting is egregious and completely unacceptable, and needs to be made an example of.
This is one of hundreds of YC startups who have conducted this disgusting behavior. Unimaginative slop that continues to get rewarded due to nepotism.
Ur dedication to ur craft will either payoff in the end or it won’t and you’ll still have the same end result of..
sacrificing ur time to achieve ur dreams, with the cost of losing other personal desires. So regardless of win or lose this is the reality of anything
One way or another something goes for something new to come in.
Wasting ur time In doubts about if ur gonna be successful in something or not is genuinely the most useless mental roadblock you can after. ESPECIALLY if you haven’t even put a full effort attempt
u can only control whats within ur limits, and thats based on ur skills, determination and knowledge either u succeed or u failed & need to reevaluate, and see if it’s worth trying again.
If it’s something ur really tryna get at and stay at. REGARDLESS of the results win or fail ur still gonna wake up & TRY to replicate or attempt winning results OR try to get the win. Ur attempt goal no matter what is to win / achieve so why does a few failures get in ur way of continuing
The more you soak up on ur failures the more Mental doubt ur mind starts visioning and road blocking.
[ KLED x STREET ]
Street Frontier II now has the right to buy up to 10.00% in Nitrility Inc., the parent company of @useKled with a current position of 5.00% in shares.
Kled has committed 100% of the $KLED trading fees to the Street Frontier II SPV, which are then reinvested into Nitrility Inc. by the Street SPV.
$KLED tokenholders don't have to do anything. No need to KYC, no need to lose your liquid tokens. No need to get rid of liquidity. No cutting out 98% of tokenholders. Welcome to the future.
With this SAFE the equity value held by Street Frontier II comes up to USD14,000,000 based on the last raise of Nitrility Inc.
Kled hereby participates in the ERC-S framework.
Today, we’re announcing our $5.5M Seed round to build the first human data marketplace.
Backed by Sebastian Thrun (Founder of Waymo), Aglaé (Venture Fund of Bernard Arnault), K5 Global, Diplo, Parable VC, Cox Exponential (CX2), Daniel Greenberg (Founder of MSCHF), Harrison Shih (DoorDash Labs), Kent Lacob (Owner of Golden State Warriors), and more.
This brings our total financing to $9 million. (Thread)