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Betts-Lacroix: Mint scaled by scraping bank websites using voluntarily submitted credentials
“So a friend of mine, Aaron Patzer, created something called Mint and ended up taking a bunch of eyeballs from big banks and other financial companies by hacking, essentially going, doing adversarial interoperability with their websites by scraping, which is so…”
Betts-Lacroix: Amazon's surveillance monopoly will be entrenched by police partnerships
“Or Amazon is now involved in video surveillance on the, at the behest, as you were saying, of police forces all over the country. And that's a situation where they have this creeping, growing monopoly power but it's going to be likely enshrined or ennobled, as…”
Betts-Lacroix: Y Combinator accepts fantastic founders with terrible ideas
“A lot of founders come into the YC with terrible ideas but they're like, sometimes when they're fantastic founders, they're like, let's just accept them anyway, because I know that The, when they're exposed to the richness of this network and the community her…”