Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark, maker of open source data room software, accused Corgi of stealing its software and passing it off as its own. Seitz's post blew up because he shared screenshots showing Corgi's product using the same language for the same features as Papermark's, word for word. Deal room software is essentially secure document sharing. It is famously used by startups to pitch VCs and send them supporting materials for due diligence. Corgi's co-founder and CEO Nico Laqua saw the tweet and promised to investigate. Soon after, he posted on X his full denial with receipts of his own, showing that the code was different between the two products. While he strenuously pushed back on the allegations of a license violation (''stole my enterprise-code' is a different claim than 'copied my style,' Laqua argued), he did admit that relying on a vibe-coding design led to the replica...
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