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Founders Behaving Badly

Founders Behaving Badly

By: Amber Rhodes
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 Your source for stories about messy founders and execs.Copyright 2025 Amber Rhodes Economics
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  • #1 | 92 customers in a trench coat

    #1 | 92 customers in a trench coat
    May 18 2025

    In the very first episode of Founders Behaving Badly, we dig into a sketchy AI edtech.

    00:00:00 - Intro

    00:02:40 - The AI chatbot for truancy

    00:05:04 - From Harvard halls to hot water

    00:06:51 - Fraud charges and pivot points

    00:12:14 - Investor decks and wild claims

    00:17:02 - When $5K becomes $3.7M

    00:23:40 - The SVB collapse and a fake rescue

    00:26:20 - Playing the consultant

    00:31:02 - The final unraveling

    00:36:15 - Where the money went (or didn’t)

    42:18:00 - The end of free money

    44:12:00 - When charisma meets crime


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