Tai Lopez charged by SEC in ponzi scheme

Re:Tai Lopez charged by SEC in ponzi scheme by an0malous on Monday September 29, 2025 @07:41AM (#45412491)

Wait until you hear about tech startups

Creating fake profiles for a dating site is basically what the Reddit founders did to create Reddit or Airbnb when they scraped Craigslist listing. It’s no more ethically compromised than what many YC companies do

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Re:Tai Lopez charged by SEC in ponzi scheme by UltraSane on Monday September 29, 2025 @11:52AM (#45415311)

I true scam company is one that was never intended to make a profit but just steal investor money.

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Re:Tai Lopez charged by SEC in ponzi scheme by an0malous on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @09:59AM (#45425533)

Many if not most scam companies scam the consumer, which is indistinguishable from profiting off a consumer.

There are also many “legitimate” tech companies that don’t make any profit, but balloon their valuation all the way to an IPO or SPAC and then profit off public investors.

So your definition still can’t distinguish between “real” companies and scam companies

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Re:Tai Lopez charged by SEC in ponzi scheme by UltraSane on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @08:01PM (#45432795)

We are talking about INTENT. The intent of the founders has to be to never actually have any customers or revenue but just steal investor money.

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