The fact he includes "Dr" in his HN username smells to me. Anyone that intent on throwing credentials around, well, makes me doubt that he actually may have those credentials.

What you're doing in this comment comes quite close to the doxxing tactics people condemn here Michael for. The quality of his PhD thesis is completely irrelevant to this thread.

A German PhD can't write good English and you use that to proclaim him a "fraud"? Do you have any real evidence? No?

A German PhD would have better English than 99% of native speakers. And his work history is conspicuously lacking anyone who would normally hire a Finance PhD, and his list of skills doesn't include any maths packages. Not that this proves anything but it does warrant closer examination.

I might not be completely justified, and I don't feel all that great about making such a claim. But at this point, I think that pretty much anything is fair game with this dude. He dug his own grave by accepting funding, and then doing everything possible to throw it down the drain.

Why, are you actually interested in defending him in this thread?

>I think that pretty much anything is fair game with this dude

What a terrible attitude

> I think that pretty much anything is fair game with this dude.

Nobody is fully good or evil. This guy is certainly in the wrong here, but that doesn't make everything he's ever done worthy of ridicule.

Their wikipedia page[1] appears to have been edited by the founder too. (In which the company is described as a "multinational").

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livecoding.tv

To be fair, self-editing your own wikipedia entry with exaggerated terminology as an early stage startup is highly understandable in the grand scheme of things. Self-editing your own PhD credentials seems to be a step or two beyond that kind of behavior, haha :)

This part from their wikipedia entry isn't that understandable. Maybe some reference I'm too old to catch?

"Livecoding.tv was founded by Jamie Green & Underscore Pete in 2014"

I dunno, a google search for "underscore pete" yielded this page as the top hit: http://underscorepete.xyz/post/article/dick-stream

The page is something about "The dick based streaming platform you never knew you needed", with the singular statement: "Dicks, dicks everywhere".

Seems pretty appropriate to this whole mess if you ask me!

For what it's worth this seems to be some unrelated vandalism from September 1st

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Livecoding.tv&typ...

That page needs a Controversies section.