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After causing outrage on the first day of Y Combinator, AI code editor PearAI lands $1M seed
On the first day of Y Combinator the founders of PearAI got “cancelled." They used the hate to launch a new product, raise $1 million.
To recap: on that Saturday in September, Ang and his cofounder Duke Pan released a proof-of-concept, minimal viable product version of their AI code editor on Github. Pan’s bravado tweet discussing how he quit his high-paying Coinbase job to do this startup and boasting that the product was “already better than Copilot” further fanned the outrage. By Sunday, the young founders had apologized, moved to a standard open source license, and better documented the open-source work that underpinned theirs, among other concessions.
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