Startup Founder Apologizes After Offering Interviews to People Who Got Tattoos
“I messed up,” LemonLime co-founder Jordan Zietz wrote on X Thursday, addressing backlash after his AI startup offered job interviews to people who got tattooed at a company party. LemonLime is a San Francisco startup founded this year that says it builds AI agents to automate businesses’ busywork. “We hosted a YC Startup School afterparty at the LemonLime office to meet exceptional people, and find out which of them are just as crazy as we are,” wrote Zietz in a now-deleted LinkedIn post.
- ▪“I messed up,” LemonLime co-founder Jordan Zietz wrote on X Thursday, addressing backlash after his AI startup offered job interviews to people who got tattooed at a company party.
- ▪LemonLime is a San Francisco startup founded this year that says it builds AI agents to automate businesses’ busywork.
- ▪“We hosted a YC Startup School afterparty at the LemonLime office to meet exceptional people, and find out which of them are just as crazy as we are,” wrote Zietz in a now-deleted LinkedIn post.
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“I messed up,” LemonLime co-founder Jordan Zietz wrote on X Thursday, addressing backlash after his AI startup offered job interviews to people who got tattooed at a company party. LemonLime is a San Francisco startup founded this year that says it builds AI agents to automate businesses’ busywork. It is part of the Summer 2026 cohort at Y Combinator, the influential startup…
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