I grew up playing a huge amount of basketball, and therefore have a completely different frame of reference here. In sports, you watch a lot of film and study your competition. You then take the best parts of your competition, and prepare to compete with them. Sometimes you take their best plays. Sometimes you you design new plays to actively exploit the other team.

The point that I'm trying to make is: this is a competition. The fact that CB would even validate this YC company by writing this post - to me - is a defensive move rather than an offensive one.