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Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to ‘cheat on everything’
On Sunday, 21-year-old Chungin 'Roy' Lee announced he’s raised $5.3 million in seed funding from Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures for his startup,
The startup was born after Lee posted in a viral X thread that he was suspended by Columbia University after he and his co-founder developed a tool to cheat on job interviews for software engineers. Cluely also published a slickly-produced, but polarizing, launch video of Lee using a hidden AI assistant to (unsuccessfully) lie to a woman about his age, and even knowledge of art, on a date at a fancy restaurant: Amazon declined to comment on Lee’s particular case to TechCrunch, but said its job candidates must acknowledge they won’t use unauthorized tools during the interview process.
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