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So is AirBnb with one of the coowners listed on top 100 FBI cyberscammers list.

Im sorry but having a rubberstamp of PG is not the same as having blessing of Elon Musk, for example. PG seems to be drifting into the dark side. What worked for Airbnb (scamming people on craiglist to solicit airbnb) worked as charm on SocialCam when the idea was to scam as many of your Facebook friends as possible.



Similar questions were raised when discussing InstallMonetizer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711), a company that makes drive-by installers

> I think people will be wondering if this resembles the founders' ideas when they were funded by [PG], and if this represents the kind of company you wish to be funding.


Considering the age of AirBnB, "drifting" isn't really the right word.

YC likes hustlers, it says so in the application, and has for years.


Its a matter of how much "hustling" you like. Someone that hacks a traffic lights and show you how cool they drive and remotely change their lights to green, or someone that hacked a traffic lights and show you how cool sixty cars, twenty dead drivers pileup looks like....


Can you link to the top 100 FBI cyberscammers list? I did a bit of googling and was unable to find it. Also which owner of AirBnB is on the list? By owner do you mean a founder or one of their investors?




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