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Slack Promoted Praise While Ignoring 50,000 Complaints Online
“Slack was promoting this like Twitter wall of praise that they had, but what they didn't promote was that there was a website where there were over 50,000 comments about why people hated Slack.”
Sean Weisbrot Sep 16, 2021 ▶ 5:21 Second From the Bottom to Second From the Top in One Move
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Omeed Tabiei: 18-Year-Old YC Founders Faced Backlash Over Open-Source Violations
“There were these founders that had been admitted to Y Combinator. It was like these two 18 year old kids. And essentially they had forked some technology, some AI wrapper essentially, and they didn't read the source licensing for the code. And essentially they…”
Startup Lawyer Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 11:47 Fred Wilson Quoted $50K, Paid Under $5K - Now Lawyers Are Panicking
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Schneider: 50 to 100 data vendors sell Twitter sentiment data
“There are literally, you know, 50 to a hundred that I know of data providers that just sell sentiment based on, on Twitter data.”
Brad Schneider Sep 16, 2021 ▶ 5:46 Why Vague Data Searches Produce Vague Results — and Who Profits
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Grazer: Jack Dorsey founded a blockchain patent pool to curb monopolies
“So for example, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, who's also CEO of Square, has recently founded a new patent pool in blockchain, and he's encouraging others to put blockchain patents in, in order to keep large companies from monopolizing the space.”
Dr. Devorah Grazer Jan 28, 2021 ▶ 29:31 The Patent Pending Secret That Adds $1M to Your Startup Valuation
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Grazer: Companies like Twitter and Tesla pledged purely defensive patent enforcement
“Some companies have decided on their own that they will only enforce their patents if someone attacks them first. So Twitter has pledged this Elon Musk in a famous blog post with the title, all our patents are belong to you playing off of the famous meme, all …”
Dr. Devorah Grazer Jan 28, 2021 ▶ 31:52 The Patent Pending Secret That Adds $1M to Your Startup Valuation
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