the fact that martin scorsese called homebound as deeply human for holding up a mirror to reality, while many in india dismissed it as propaganda. thatโs what truly scares me
Maybe the Delve founders are genuine psychopaths. Maybe they set out to defraud people from day one.
But they're 21. Both of them. Basically kids.
More likely: they got into YC, got surrounded by people telling them to move fast and break things, grow at all costs, fake it till you make it, and so on. They wanted to impress their batchmates, their partners, the alumni network, their parents. So they pushed too hard and broke things they shouldn't have broken.
YC selects for this. They want young naive founders who are aggressive, ambitious, a little reckless. They celebrate the ones who bend the rules and win. When a 21 year old bends the rules and loses, suddenly it's a "trust" issue and they get a cold three-sentence farewell on Bookface.
No mentorship. No "hey, you're heading in a dangerous direction." No community stepping in before it got this far. Just "we asked them to leave, we wish them well."
That's not a community. That's a machine that takes credit for your wins and disowns you when you mess up.
People should also acknowledge & celebrate the mind behind this heist.
Ranjit Bajaj (the mind behind Minerva) does not just run a club; he runs a football monastery. Bajaj invested his life. He sold his family & personal assets to fund Minerva Academy.
This is real Skin in the Game. In 2020, when he sold his I-League club (Punjab FC), he did not exit the sport. He took that money & built a biological incubator in Mohali. He realized that the only way to beat West is to start at age 7, not age 18.
The funny thing is that a lot of Satyajit Ray's movies are about middle class and rich Indians. This person hasn't watched anything apart from the Apu trilogy.
@akhmxt Ye sab herogiri bas bhikmango/annas archive types ke saamne aati he.
Agar himmat hoti to they would have gone after all the llm companies like meta/msft etc
The fact that Rayan Cherki couldโve run it to the corner flag to kill time but chose to embarrass Martinelli and Calafiori insteadโฆ yeah this guy is different ๐คฉ๐ฅ