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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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Y Combinator is no longer the stamp of approval it used to be When you're analyzing a project, you shouldn't even care if they’re backed by YC it adds exactly zero value. The main reason they fell from grace is that they turned it into a conveyor belt. Back in the day, getting into YC meant you survived a brutal, hand-picked selection process, which immediately put you on the radar of top-tier VC funds. Now? It’s just a factory. Demo Day has devolved into an endless, mind-numbing scroll

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