As far as I know, Y Combinator invests a lump sum and then contributes mentorship. Their only real recourse is to say, "Sorry, we've decided that you're not worth our time" and to terminate all work with the company.
Which, honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they do.
> To maintain our community, if a founder behaves unethically during or after YC, we will revoke their YC founder status. This includes access to all Y Combinator spaces, software, lists and events. All founders in a company may be held responsible for the unethical actions of a single co-founder or a company employee, depending on the circumstances.
Huh, I saw this livecoding site advertised here by the founders, seemed like a great idea and I hoped it would kick off. Sad to see the administration is unprofessional. I wonder how people can fail so hard at public relations. If they didn't want to delete her account all it would have taken is a "Sorry, accounts can't be deleted from livecoding.tv". Instead they had to turn this into something that destroys the reputation of their new site.
To be frank, there were only a few videos on the account and the account was not even visited by any other user last 30 days. It was just pending on our tasklist.
I think if it were only a matter of taking a long time to delete the account, we wouldn't be so unhappy. To me, the reason your team's behavior seems extremely unprofessional are
1. Not telling Liza when her account would be deleted
2. Telling her her account was deleted but not actually deleting it
3. Sending the "Do you and your friends want to disturb us with this" email
4. Editing Liza's account to claim that she was banned for spamming
Wow! This is the worst excuse for not completing the task that you have promised. It doesn't matter whether she had videos or not, it doesn't matter if anyone visited her profile or not. The only thing that matters is that your customer asked you to delete your account. And all you have done is lie, give excuses and edit her profile page with a vengeance that I (and others) cannot comprehend.
