Author says they were fired from YC-backed Simple AI in July
andytratt · hn · 2026-07-27
The author says they were fired from Simple AI in July and wrote a first-person account of what happened, framing it as a deeply YC-backed company story.
The post is a personal company-dynamics piece rather than a product or funding update.
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