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by Dawnyhf2 1275 days ago
YC will be found to play a tangential role in some kind of fraud. My reasoning is that the stock market crash has exposed many fraudulent companies, YC and its associated partners/orgs lend an air of legitimacy that fraudulent groups will want to co-oped.
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I think they’re going to blow their wad trying to take down a currently obscure debut novelist. They won’t do anything stupidly illegal because he isn’t actually that important to them, but the minor scandal will expose a few threads that the world will pull upon…

Y Combinator might not actually “go SBF” till mid year 2024 but they will start in 23… and out of sheer pettiness.

Depending on how you want to define fraudulent, it already has https://youtu.be/eYzzPBq8GDU