Lying is becoming more common in SF tech, says Julian Weisser
julianweisser · x · 2026-10-13
Julian Weisser observes that dishonesty is increasingly common in SF tech, attributing much of it to the false timelines and expectations placed on founders: encouraging short-termism breeds increasingly dishonest behavior.
He quotes Dhravya Shah's post describing an intro to a founder who named several customers; when Shah asked those customers directly, none had ever used the product — the founder was simply lying.
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