[saadatq]

Unreal:

> Allred tweeted that the school achieved a 100 percent job-placement rate in one of its cohorts, and later acknowledged in a private message that the sample size was just one student.

[sandofsky]

When confronted about this on Hacker News, Austen defended himself with:

> I did say the hiring rate of a cohort of one student was 100%. And in the same tweet I said, in all caps BUT VERY SMALL SAMPLE SIZE. Odd how that doesn’t make the article, don’t you think?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26813371

Incidentally, it did make it into the article he's referring to, twice.

[kevinmchugh]

I've been in a lot of from arguments but never had one where I was later proven right by the federal government. That's quite the feather in your cap.

[shkkmo]

Incidentally, comments like the one you made back in 2021 are part of what make HN so great, thanks.

[sensanaty]

I could almost respect the hilarity of this defense if it weren't about him having scammed people for (in aggregates) millions

[syntaxing]

Aha that’s a gem, it’s like that crypto company listed “audited by <some famous reliable auditor >”. They do not mention they failed the audit, but they “did” get audited.

[FireBeyond]

Or Tether. "We realize - but hope you don't - that 'financial attestations' do not remotely resemble 'audits', but we're going to call this financial attestation an audit". And "If you don't fall for the first, we're going to tell you that we have had audits done but we won't release them because they're in Mandarin Chinese."

I wish I was kidding.

[tempsy]

From what I’ve read about his career before this he was basically a growth marketer/hacker

Like the only thing he knows how to do is fudge things with dark patterns to achieve growth at any cost

[g42gregory]

Technically, the statement is still valid. It's just that the confidence interval will be wide. :-)

[threeseed]

He seems to be the king of technically.

"For a few months in 2013, Allred camped out of his car while in Silicon Valley, and frequently describes this period as having been homeless. However, a deleted post on his blog titled 'Voluntarily Homeless in Silicon Valley' explains that he lived out of a car by choice."