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Avi Patel@avipat_ · May 15, 2026, 8:25 PM
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General Catalyst just co-led a $31.5 million seed round into a blatant rip-off of my company, Kled. (skip to 40 seconds if you want to skip context) I would typically not speak on things like this, but this level of blatant copycatting is egregious and completely unacceptable, and needs to be made an example of. This is one of hundreds of YC startups who have conducted this disgusting behavior. Unimaginative slop that continues to get rewarded due to nepotism.

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$kled 两个大学生通过复制kled,网站甚至看起来一模一样,种子轮获得了顶级风投GC的3100万美金。kled的创始人 @avipat_ 实名抨击了这种不要脸的"创业"模式,半天就获得了500万浏览量,甚至超过了本月引起轩然大波的封禁尼日利亚的帖子。而几乎同时间a16z的大佬 @pmarca 隔空互动开始不停吐槽GC。 avi不是个普通创始人,他充满能量也了解流量,他一人之力给kled持续带来巨大的曝光 $kled 也随话题热度上涨,代币的存在也让kled在x上有一个强大的持币者群体,他们了解kled并会在此时全力维护kled,也许这便是代币的价值

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