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Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by cyberferret on Sunday August 28, 2016 @10:58PM (#12379725)
Clicked on this expecting to see another millennial self entitled "why I left" rant, but found a well written, horrifying article on deception and underhanded shenanigans.

The CEO of this startup qualifies be listed under the other discussion on here about psychopaths running companies.

Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by sanderjd on Monday August 29, 2016 @01:59AM (#12380281)
Odd, I've never come across a rant like that. But I do seem to see self satisfied "millennial" bashing pretty often. (I don't think I'll ever understand this impulse to ascribe vague personality traits to broad groups of people across a large number of birth years.)
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by cyberferret on Monday August 29, 2016 @06:38AM (#12381053)
Apologies, it was probably a little too judgemental and unnecessarily tarred a lot of people with a wide brush, but there was a phase about 12 months ago where Medium was full of posts, to paraphrase what someone else said: "By unknown twenty-something year olds posting angst driven articles about leaving some unknown valley startup as if they were Jimmy Page leaving Led Zeppelin"...
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by barry-cotter on Monday August 29, 2016 @08:43AM (#12381448)
You're not helping yourself. Your first post made you sound judgmental and ageist and this one is more of the same.
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by jsprogrammer on Monday August 29, 2016 @02:30PM (#12384025)
Could you please link to one of those posts so that we may read one?
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by newllama on Monday August 29, 2016 @04:34PM (#12385079)
https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73d...

I'm almost certain that this is the post he had in mind while writing this comment.

Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by ryguytilidie on Monday August 29, 2016 @05:43PM (#12385627)
It's weird, because the person said "another one of those..." The Talia Jane article came to mind but I'm quite sure there aren't others. Seems kind of weird to imply this happens all the time when its happened exactly once.
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by jsprogrammer on Monday August 29, 2016 @08:40PM (#12386547)
That would be a categorical error as Talia did not leave Yelp.
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by bendbro on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @11:42AM (#12391140)
I'd imagine it has something to do with having eyes, ears and a brain
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by sanderjd on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @10:57PM (#12395686)
I'm sorry, what? I think you're probably trying to say I'm wrong in some offensive way, but I have no idea what you're talking about.
Re:Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup by pcwalton on Monday August 29, 2016 @09:08AM (#12381577)
> well written, horrifying article on deception and underhanded shenanigans

In this case, the phrase "criminal acts" seems more appropriate.