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There's an impolite term for someone like them in politics. Ratfuckers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfucking

Yelp is ratfucking the entire tech industry.

When the post dot-com wave of consumer companies arrived, they found a market that was more likely to trust them - the scrappy underdog - than the big, evil corporation. They were a breath of fresh air. A needed change in a stale ecosystem.

Jon Favreau said he based Iron Man off of Elon Musk. Tech was cool. And more importantly trusted.

And then Yelp & co arrived. Uber at least had the decency to start out by screwing over the competition. They did their best to avoid screwing over the customers. But Yelp? Yelp doesn't give a fuck.

They're ratfuckers to the core, and they'll torch everyone and everything if it helps them get a quarterly bonus.

Or, so I've heard.




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