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This is just terrible. I mean, the people who built this app are going to have massive liability. Massive liability because, gosh, I hate to even say this, but if this app succeeded in what it was doing, then people would have written reviews about the people they thought were the most dangerous. And now those most dangerous people, if there in fact are dangerous people in the world, know who wrote the review of them and had previously dated them or gone on a date with them. Holy cow.

That seems to me to be a recipe for real pain and suffering in the future. Such a colossal catastrophe. Now, the venture capital side of this is, as far as I can tell, T has not raised any external funding, so I don't think there's anyone we can hang this on inside the industry, Jason, but there's 4.6 million people who were using this application before. And here's the crazy thing. I thought it was going to fall off the ratings or rankings because clearly it's not a well-run company.

It was still ranked number two this morning, right behind ChatGPT on the American iOS App Store. Wow. This week in startups is brought to you by Openphone. Create business phone numbers for you and your team that work through an app on your smartphone or desktop. Twist listeners can get an extra 20% off any plan for your first six months at openphone.com slash twist.

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