[liuliu]

Yeah. It is weird. On one hand, v3 looks really good, the arch is sound, and the work is solid. On the other hand, selling Clipdrop is not a good sign (a growing startup divest is uncommon). Emad likes to talk about how they were able to retain researchers and now this, so it is hard to know what's going on.

[xangel]

The CEO being a fraud could be a possible reason. Just saying.

[liuliu]

You shouldn't judge people by what Forbes says, but what people do. So far, Emad delivers on what he promises (with some delays here and there), and Stability.ai is the only one that publish image / video generation models at production quality.

[UberFly]

Not just Forbes. Read about him on Wikipedia.

[five_lights]

>However, according to him, he did not attend his graduation ceremony to receive his degrees, and therefore, he does not technically possess a BA or an MA.

Oh wow, he's probably lying about his education.

[topato]

Good. I trust people who lie about their education and exceed the expected ability of a BA, vs. the huge amounts of barely articulate and completely disinterested CS graduates entering the workforce as of late

[wdb]

I received them by mail. He didn't?

[ninjasaid13]

actually he recently received his BA and MA now.

[zenlikethat]

I mean, you get a nose for people like that after a while. They all have common characteristics like self aggrandizement, making bold claims and then changing tune when caught, a history of burnt out and salty ex co workers. It’s not that hard to spot in this guy’s case.

[whywhywhywhy]

Did you read the article?

I saw everyone repeating this over and over but then I actually read the article and couldn't even understand what the big deal was... hard to find a founder who hasn't done all the things he was accused off none of which were really a big deal.

Felt completely overblown and honestly like a weird hit piece but where the journo didn't actually find any real dirt to smear.

[UberFly]

Certainly a shady player. Doesn't seem to be in good hands.