Published on: 2025-10-07 11:32:53
Michael Seibel announced late Wednesday on X that after more than 12 years at the famed accelerator Y Combinator, he is transitioning to a “partner emeritus” role. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan shared the news separately in a company blog post, highlighting Seibel’s long history with the outfit. Seibel first joined YC as a founder, going through the program twice — once with the streaming startup Justin.TV and later with the streaming app Socialcam. Seibel later served as a group partner, managing
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-07 23:20:51
Scientific Management, sometimes called "Taylorism" after its founder, Frederick W. Taylor, is the idea that human workers can be fine-tuned to be more efficient. If a garment factory worker could make a shirt two seconds quicker by standing instead of sitting, then a Taylorist boss would have them stand, because those two seconds per shirt add up over time. That was back in the 1880s, but lately Taylorism hasn't just been surviving — it's thriving, as wireless gadgets and management software a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-16 15:48:02
A venture capital-backed “AI performance monitoring system for factory workers” is proposing what appears to be dehumanizing surveillance of factories, where machine vision tracks workers’ hand movements and output so a boss can look at graphs and yell at them about efficiency. In a launch video demoing the product, founders Vivaan Baid and Kushal Mohta put on a skit showing how Optifye.ai would be used by factory bosses. The YC deleted video for sweatshop startup Optifye pic.twitter.com/vCJvm
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