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#172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Importance of Not Selling User Data

One of the reasons you were rejected from YC Y Combinator in the final rounds is because one of the principles is to refuse to sell user data. I don't think it was ethical to pawn them off for a profit. There's some room in transparency and giving people the choice on which parts they can, like share with advertisers. Are you going to give them a profit? It's just so right. But if as long as you give people control and are transparent and make it easy, then they're not actually a deep loving member of the community.

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