[willturman]

How long until YCombinator stops listing Flock "Safety" on their website as one of their proud VC success stories?

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com

[CobrastanJorji]

Flock was valued at $7.5 billion last year, and it's probably worth more now. It's absolutely one of YCombinator's success stories.

YCombinator's goal is to make a lot of money by causing there to be more startups, and therefore more successor startups. "Make the world a better place" is not one of their success metrics. They're investors, not altruists.

[soperj]

It's only a success if all you care about is money.

[rvz]

Never.

We should not expect any VC no matter how big or small to care.

[john_strinlai]

never, it is a shining success when viewed through the eyes of venture capital

[dyauspitr]

Hunh, didn’t know flock was ycomb.

[propagandist]

The new leadership (Tan) is utterly shameless and free of moral constraints. I wouldn't count on it.

[cyanydeez]

Yeah, the idea that YC will disown unfettered capitalism seems dreamy.

[lm28469]

It prints money and harvest data, the holy grail basically, why would they remove it

[altairprime]

Why would they? There’s no “pro-social” enforcement in their funding terms, so they’re just as “morals aren’t applicable to profit” as any off-the-shelf C-corp is. If they required their startups to found B-corps then I’d understand trying to apply human ethical concerns to them, but they don’t, so human morals simply don't apply.