VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows a Different Reality

Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by paulchap on Thursday July 09, 2020 @09:13AM (#23779787)

I don't think any VC would like to be attached to the app if the author were to be committing fraud under the FTC Act. Not only are the app reviews suspicious, but the testimonial pictures[0] are definitely faked.

[0] https://getbright.app/

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Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by anon102010 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:20PM (#23783986)

I thought this unlikely but doing a quick look

This:

https://reductress.com/post/the-best-haircuts-for-what-youve...

is very close to the person (Sonya) on get bright's testimonials.

https://getbright.app/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/testimonial...

It could be the same Sonya just doing other things (hair shots etc) of course so not certain they are fake testimonial photos but certainly weird.

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Re:VCs Promised to Help Black Founders – My Experience Shows... by paulchap on Saturday July 11, 2020 @03:55PM (#23805332)

The one you found is the most ambiguous, since there's no background in the (cleverly) cropped testimonial photo, but Google Images turned up pictures for every single testimonial[0,1,2,3]. The timestamps from these websites go severy years back, as well. [0] https://www.stclairdentist.com.au/smile-makeover/ [1] https://www.dmdentalgroup.com/articles/professional-teeth-wh... [2] https://helpingminds.org.au/new-geraldton/ [3] https://reductress.com/post/the-best-haircuts-for-what-youve...

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