> For its three days of existence, CorgiGirls.com displayed photos of Corgi’s female employees in side-by-side comparisons, letting visitors vote on who they thought was more attractive. The website now shows a domain name error.
> The website appears to have been set up by Sebastian Mandal, a San Francisco-based startup startup founder who describes himself on LinkedIn as a college dropout and a professional Minecraft player. On Monday evening, Mandal said in a now-deleted tweet that he had purchased the CorgiGirls.com domain, asking his 279 followers, “what should i do with it? have an idea, but it may not be politically correct.”
> He then tagged Mark Zuckerberg to ask for his input, presumably as a nod to Facemash, a similar “hot-or-not”-style website that the Meta chief built in 2003 during his sophomore year at Harvard.
The guy who created it (Sebastian Mandal) has already taken down his site, his linkedin, and protected his Twitter/X. Guess he's getting slammed for his gross choice here.
I was really hoping for a fun story about someone using a corgi to disrupt a social media campaign though.
Oh this guy again. This guy is a total douche. Not related, he previously tweeting being "inspired by" Martin Shkreli and writing letters to him in prison.
Good that it got taken down. I'm not surprised it was made. The sleaze kinda attracts sleaze. It really feels like this headline is, "Startup known for parading young attractive women takes down website that drew too much attention to the fact it was parading young attractive women."
It'll be interesting to see how things go for this company. I feel like there will be some interesting books written about it a decade from now.
> Sebastian Mandal, a San Francisco-based startup startup founder who describes himself on LinkedIn as a college dropout and a professional Minecraft player.
I see a Sequoia Capital funding round in his future.
The whole startup ecosystem encourages go all in, crash and burn, go big or go home style actions from all actors involved.
It is fascinating to watch, now that I have a closer view of the table. You're encouraged to take pot shots at each other, get attention at all cost and win big.
it is so easy to lose all humanity in the doubling down on each other and thinking it is all one big frat party. all of us should be guilty to be part of the perversion, but since everybody is involved none of us are.
> it is so easy to lose all humanity in the doubling down on each other and thinking it is all one big frat party. all of us should be guilty to be part of the perversion, but since everybody is involved none of us are.
SV has poor alignment, so probably needs to be destroyed and rebuilt with better alignment.
I’m imagining a dystopian panopticon future of paid subs to “hot or not” Flock scrapes and the bozos who would defend it as a good exercise of free speech and the rights of capital
Please, if you are a bozo and this sounds like a good idea to you, consider getting your head checked instead of picking up the ball and running with it
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[ 0.24 ms ] story [ 6.9 ms ] thread> The website appears to have been set up by Sebastian Mandal, a San Francisco-based startup startup founder who describes himself on LinkedIn as a college dropout and a professional Minecraft player. On Monday evening, Mandal said in a now-deleted tweet that he had purchased the CorgiGirls.com domain, asking his 279 followers, “what should i do with it? have an idea, but it may not be politically correct.”
> He then tagged Mark Zuckerberg to ask for his input, presumably as a nod to Facemash, a similar “hot-or-not”-style website that the Meta chief built in 2003 during his sophomore year at Harvard.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/corgi-the-buzzy-y-combinat...
I was really hoping for a fun story about someone using a corgi to disrupt a social media campaign though.
Something, something the company you keep.
It'll be interesting to see how things go for this company. I feel like there will be some interesting books written about it a decade from now.
I see a Sequoia Capital funding round in his future.
It is fascinating to watch, now that I have a closer view of the table. You're encouraged to take pot shots at each other, get attention at all cost and win big.
it is so easy to lose all humanity in the doubling down on each other and thinking it is all one big frat party. all of us should be guilty to be part of the perversion, but since everybody is involved none of us are.
SV has poor alignment, so probably needs to be destroyed and rebuilt with better alignment.
Please, if you are a bozo and this sounds like a good idea to you, consider getting your head checked instead of picking up the ball and running with it