Flock was valued at $7.5 billion last year, and it's probably worth more now. It's absolutely one of YCombinator's success stories.

YCombinator's goal is to make a lot of money by causing there to be more startups, and therefore more successor startups. "Make the world a better place" is not one of their success metrics. They're investors, not altruists.

Never.

We should not expect any VC no matter how big or small to care.

never, it is a shining success when viewed through the eyes of venture capital

Hunh, didn’t know flock was ycomb.

The new leadership (Tan) is utterly shameless and free of moral constraints. I wouldn't count on it.

It prints money and harvest data, the holy grail basically, why would they remove it

Why would they? There’s no “pro-social” enforcement in their funding terms, so they’re just as “morals aren’t applicable to profit” as any off-the-shelf C-corp is. If they required their startups to found B-corps then I’d understand trying to apply human ethical concerns to them, but they don’t, so human morals simply don't apply.