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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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1121 points alokedesai | 4 comments | 28 Oct 15 19:51 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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aarontcheung ◴[28 Oct 15 22:42 UTC] No.10467925[source]▶
I'm one of the founders of Homejoy. I'm still very passionate about the home service space. After leaving Homejoy, I started FlyMaids, where we're exploring a few different angles on the space.

We recently acquired the customer and service provider data from Homejoy.

We're a small team that has been focused on moving quickly while bootstraping. We tried to quickly test different approaches, but we realize now that we did so in an unclear manner. We recognize the need to use the data we acquired responsibily. As a result, we're taking the site down, and we're going to do a better job with our testing moving forward.

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1. seancoleman ◴[29 Oct 15 02:23 UTC] No.10468825[source]▶
Typically investment contracts employ non-competes to prevent founders from starting new businesses in similar spaces. Clearly this person's previous actions aren't the most ethical but I'm curious what his strategy is around this.
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2. mentat ◴[29 Oct 15 04:07 UTC] No.10469227[source]▶
Aren't all non-competes illegal in California?
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3. slantedview ◴[29 Oct 15 04:29 UTC] No.10469277[source]▶
If you're willing to go to battle in court, they are.
4. bravo22 ◴[29 Oct 15 05:22 UTC] No.10469428[source]▶
For employment they are unenforceable but this is a different situation. It would be part of an investment contract and it is very much enforceable.