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Re:LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator by minimaxir on Friday June 04, 2021 @07:00PM (#27400054)
Per the tweet replies, Paul Biggar's company that YC funded has been defunct, so that likely makes YC's calculus to remove him easier (optics aside).
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Re:LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator by dang on Friday June 04, 2021 @08:36PM (#27400816)
FWIW I don't think that would much affect the decision. In past similar cases, where the startup wasn't defunct, YC has divested.

I've never been part of any such decision, but I do know YC and the people who have to make such decisions, and from what I've seen they'd be reasoning from first principles or at least trying to.

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Re:LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator by YuriNiyazov on Friday June 04, 2021 @07:22PM (#27400252)
This is the part that I don't understand. CircleCI is alive and well last time I checked.
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Re:LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator by minimaxir on Friday June 04, 2021 @07:28PM (#27400300)
Apparently it was a startup wayyyyy back in 2010, before CircleCI: https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/12/ycs-newstilt-aims-to-help-...
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