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If you're operating e-sports teams and want to build/market a new video livestreaming platform for fans, outside of the walled gardens of YouTube and Twitch and in a cost-efficient manner... bringing on an outspoken and talented entrepreneur who built that exact operation makes all the sense in the world!

And from https://9z.gg/equipos I see that one of their teams focuses on a racing simulator... so it seems the subject of this article is one of the few people in history to successfully reach the endgame of that legendary PSA that admonished viewers "You Wouldn't Download A Car." :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU

If he writes good code I dont care what his personal life before working for me entails, long as he isnt doing illegal stuff on company resources.
I'd start drawing a line on fascist ideologies. We don't need fascists no matter how brilliant and skilled. We can do without just fine.
The problem is, when he does illegal stuff using your corporate resources, like running an illegal crypto scam it's a whole heckuva lot harder to say "Oh, we didn't know he would do that!" in court.
There's always someone just as qualified that doesn't have a record, so you'd in fact be hiring the lesser of the two candidates, and that's not a smart business decision.
"tech unicorn" why use those words?
BTW, "LaLiga" Spanish operator mentioned in the article as the one promoting the arrest of this guy in Argentina is the same mentioned this past weeks as getting Spanish ISPs to block wide ranges of IP addresses (specially Cloudflare) each time there's a football match on TV:

  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45358433
  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45195520
  - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45323856
from jail to getting hired by a slop factory meat grinder that pays like shit.

his punishment continues

The image of the person is hosted under their website as `/images/goat.jpg.webp`, interesting. Goat.