Brian Alvarez-Bailey (BABz)

The best thing one can do is separate business from friendship. I’ve failed at this. No longer.

the only face of YC

I fixed my clip program!!!!!!! Literally feel guilty for asking AI to help me on Python variables but after several days I finally figured it tf out

@Calebharman8 @TheLetitRidePod @podoffame @bball_ref

@fintechbrian @TheLetitRidePod @podoffame @bball_ref The rule didn't need to exist in the first place. There's been load management for like 20 years. Now we're gonna have fuckin Chet holmgren or someone else who doesn't deserve it; make all-nba.

I am sorry, but if you can’t play in at least 80% of the games, you probably don’t deserve to win regular season awards. Only five NBA MVPs have gone to a player who played under 65 games. Malone won in a 50-game strike season. LeBron during a 66-game strike season. Giannis during 72-game COVID season. Cousy during a 72-game season. In NBA history, only Bill Walton would have been impacted by the 65-game rule.

VCs falling over themselves to fund cats like this that will scam them. Cold game.

Madam…do you have my phone tapped???

@SebastianAvenue I downloaded this episode to my phone almost 10 years ago and refuse to ever delete it...just because of this scene.

Wally Szczerbiak!

Delve, a YC-backed compliance startup that raised $32 million, has been accused of systematically faking SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance reports for hundreds of clients. According to a detailed Substack investigation by DeepDelver, a leaked Google spreadsheet containing links to hundreds of confidential draft audit reports revealed that Delve generates auditor conclusions before any auditor reviews evidence, uses the same template across 99.8% of reports, and relies on Indian certification mills operating through empty US shells instead of the "US-based CPA firms" they advertise. Here's the breakdown: > 493 out of 494 leaked SOC 2 reports allegedly contain identical boilerplate text, including the same grammatical errors and nonsensical sentences, with only a company name, logo, org chart, and signature swapped in > Auditor conclusions and test procedures are reportedly pre-written in draft reports before clients even provide their company description, which would violate AICPA independence rules requiring auditors to independently design tests and form conclusions > All 259 Type II reports claim zero security incidents, zero personnel changes, zero customer terminations, and zero cyber incidents during the observation period, with identical "unable to test" conclusions across every client > Delve's "US-based auditors" are actually Accorp and Gradient, described as Indian certification mills operating through US shell entities. 99%+ of clients reportedly went through one of these two firms over the past 6 months > The platform allegedly publishes fully populated trust pages claiming vulnerability scanning, pentesting, and data recovery simulations before any compliance work has been done > Delve pre-fabricates board meeting minutes, risk assessments, security incident simulations, and employee evidence that clients can adopt with a single click, according to the author > Most "integrations" are just containers for manual screenshots with no actual API connections. The author describes the platform as a "SOC 2 template pack with a thin SaaS wrapper" > When the leak was exposed, CEO Karun Kaushik emailed clients calling the allegations "falsified claims" from an "AI-generated email" and stated no sensitive data was accessed, while the reports themselves contained private signatures and confidential architecture diagrams > Companies relying on these reports could face criminal liability under HIPAA and fines up to 4% of global revenue under GDPR for compliance violations they believed were resolved > When clients threaten to leave, Delve reportedly pairs them with an external vCISO for manual off-platform work, which the author argues proves their own platform can't deliver real compliance > Delve's sales price dropped from $15,000 to $6,000 with ISO 27001 and a penetration test thrown in when a client mentioned considering a competitor

That mini one is Rudy Huuuuuuuuuuxtable.

Chicago needs less happy hours and more hackathons 👨🏽‍💻👨🏽‍💻👨🏽‍💻 Nice turnout for the first @claudeai meetup

@MaxfieldOnBanks Is that San Antonio?

best intern in banking — very good job today, ma’am

Back in 2009, I joined a troubled bank. Our Texas ratio hit over 200% and we were the worst performing bank in Oklahoma. Despite being unable to raise capital, our employee-owners scrappily turned around and rebuilt the pre-statehood bank. More here => linkedin.com/posts/jillcast…

@TheLetitRidePod @podoffame @bball_ref Yea...I gathered the "disagree" part. Thankfully, the League disagreed with you and put in a formal rule. Kudos to them for doing something right.

@fintechbrian @podoffame @bball_ref I disagree pretty vehemently…just trust the voters to put the right guys in

@Charlie_Breeze How did "as hell" become "asl"...? Asl is AOL lingo.

“Shorty you funny as hell!” 😂😂

@TheLetitRidePod @podoffame @bball_ref No. There needed to be a formal rule.

@fintechbrian @podoffame @bball_ref The great thing about keeping the rule informal is it can be broken in outlier circumstances

@HitterBladeWRLD @DepressedDETN No. He was literally born in Lagos...

Oba said WHOMST motivated him?!?

@TheLetitRidePod @podoffame @bball_ref No. It was an "informal" rule that was formalized.

@podoffame @bball_ref So to me that means we don’t need the rule…voters clearly already took games played into account except for in an extreme situation where Walton absolutely deserved the MVP

@FadeAwayMedia He's Nigerian. Not a shocker.

Oba Femi was asked who motivated him to think bigger and dream big in his life He named Joe Rogan Elon Musk David Goggins “I just recognized the pattern of everyone who was successful they weren’t afraid to dream wild” “I listed to a lot of Joe Rogan”

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