It’s degen white collar gambling. Even with an 8-figure strong case, I learned recently that top law firms clamor to get these cases and will do it on contingency yet almost always prefer to just seek civil damages and skip the qui tam because it’s faster to settle privately than actually prove the obvious fraud. So do I want to gamble my $500k personal cash to have an 80% shot at $6M payout? Math says yes but it’s the same reason I don’t play WSOP Main Event every year.
@ycombinator@flowglad The fact that I can VIBE CODE my payment rails with confidence is unreal and a huge time & money saver. For my next startup we're obv using @flowglad... simple decision, @duh !
This Chrome extension would have been a lifesaver for a company I’m on the Board of. They hired an engineer, he aced the technical exam, linkedin all checked out on the surface, etc. He even negotiated his comp package hard asking for more equity. The company made the offer, signed docs, and gave the new hire repo access.
It was all fake.
We investigated re: whether they had reporting requirements related to PIIA/user data breach. Luckily, he never accessed user data tables. But he could have. And we were lucky to have logs that could prove he hadn’t.
We still don’t know what his intention was. Perhaps financial account access. I imagine for bleeding edge AI companies with novel tech, it may be codebase access to sell on blackmarket or extort company not to leak it?
Regardless of his motives, I imagine if they had been using FraudShield it would have saved this company a massive headache.
It's obvious everyone who is hiring these days needs to be super careful. I mean, @duh !
I SHALL NOW BE KNOWN AS THE CRUSHstacean!!
Congrats to Naughty33W who came up with a better nickname than @NickVertucciNV's "Rumple Shrimpskin". He'll be snagging that $100 prize.
Runner's up were:
Daniel Allen - Shawshrimp Redemption
Don Birnam - Shrimplock Holmes
Elton Long - The Real Shrimp Shady
Jim OB - Shrimpy McShrimpface
Guru Mack - Pocket Shrimps
DrewF - Shrimp Biscuit
Runners up were so good that I'll throw in a $25 prize for each of you too. DM me or @HCLPokerShow moderator @MezzoDana to get your prize.
And catch me on @MaxPainMonday tonight to see the CRUSHstacean in action as I target my homie @DGAFPokerPlayer !!
“You emasculated me on camera” —@DGAFPokerPlayer says after he is bluffed off pocket JJ in $2k poker hand during @MaxPainMonday on @HCLPokerShow. Watch them face off in a rematch this Monday.
One of HCL's newest players, "Shrimp," is makin' waves. Follow him here: @duh. Super fun guy and a damn good player. Welcome to the #HCLFamily, Shrimp!!
Was just pitched for funding by founders building an "AI-powered decentralized marketplace disrupting the nation's food supply". It's a meal kit. Just say you're selling f%*king meal kits.
99% of startup investments initiate from a warm intro. But my truth: I raised my first $1M, and got accepted to #YCombinator, by scraping @AngelList and using Mechanical Turk to write 300 personalized cold-outreach emails. Pls forgive me @naval 🙏
.@ycombinator just fast-tracked a dozen AI companies into their next funding batch. They announced application process on Friday July 14, applications were do that following Tuesday, and funds were wired that week. AI is moving so fast that the VC market is frantic to keep up.