What prevents them from selling the database of their paid users to the highest bidder?

No clue. You’re going to have to ask

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=beyondd

I’m assuming that YC frowns on their funded companies doing unsavory things?

As someone who applied to every YC company in my region, I find their funded companies do lots of unsavory things. I stopped buying from one because they were using deceptive marketing, and I stopped applying to one after the Glassdoor talked about the long hours and racist incidents.

There's a kind of YC culture where they believe nice guys do well [1]. And they're likely biased towards funding nice people. But after they're funded, they don't really have any control over the company.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html

>I’m assuming that YC frowns on their funded companies doing unsavory things?

Only if it leads to unsavory revenue reports.

Didn't YC literally invest in a ponzi scheme?

I’m getting nothing but PHP errors just visiting that page

Not sure what you’re seeing, but it still works fine for me

Maybe ping them?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30605010

Are you sure it’s not an issue on your end Cole?

Just tried again and it’s working now. Regardless, I’m not sure how it could be my end when the site was spitting PHP errors listing filepaths on their server.