Many users condemned the Phia shopping app and its founder for fraudulently manipulating UTM parameters to falsely claim sales credit, while a few defended her against perceived unfair scrutiny due to her family name.
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@ml_angelopoulos Fraud is fraud buddy. I will be sure to steer far clear of any company you’re ever associated with if this is your stance on fraud.
@ml_angelopoulos People are hating on her because she committed literal fraud! Did you say the same thing about Elizabeth Holmes and Charli Javitz?
@ml_angelopoulos I hope she crushes it. People think she has everything on her side but those type of expectations are actually the opposite
@lulumeservey Sorry, no. Zero tolerance for unethical behavior. Shut the company down.
The browser extension manipulated last-touch attribution to claim credit.
@growing_daniel im big on her
First thing Phia needs to do is stop using this dumb excuse that it was a random glitch they were just “made aware” about Nobody’s buying that. And when you have a crisis of trust, the worst thing you can do is strain credibility further Second is get founders to quit hiding behind a faceless corpo spokesperson, take accountability, give a better explanation, and pay back the money People can eventually forgive “naive first time founders got in over their heads and are humbled” but won’t forgive “these nepo babies really think we’re stupid
Whenever I see a crazy negative hate train against someone, I have the instinct to root for them. Maybe something is wrong with my brain, but I think it's largely unwarranted. Soooo many people are hating on her because she is related to BG! And not one person is positive that she's trying to build her own business. The downside of being BG daughter is that everybody is watching you, even if you're running a tiny baby startup. And that means you're going to get a lot of hate online no matter what you do. Especially if you do something wrong, which sounds like the case here tbf. I hope she takes this moment to learn, improve her product and goes on to build an awesome and ethical business. Let's go, @PhoebeAdellle! If you guys are successful, this will just be a drop in the bucket, you're gonna get a ton more hate, and you're going to need a strong stomach along the way;)
Attribution rules the world. In this case, an extension was injecting a UTM param into URLs to hack 'last touch' attribution models. Attribution rules the world. https://twitter.com/business/status/2075536490789040564
Bill gates daughter scamming to get her startup revenue is insanely impressive. Where does an S tier nepo baby get that kind of drive?
hey claude can you increase my app's revenue?" https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/2075696452081529136
Bill Gates' daughter BTW https://twitter.com/business/status/2075536490789040564
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Many users condemned the Phia shopping app and its founder for fraudulently manipulating UTM parameters to falsely claim sales credit, while a few defended her against perceived unfair scrutiny due to her family name.
Based on 19 visible X reactions from 120 accounts; directional sample.
Ask a question below.
Published answers will appear here.
First thing Phia needs to do is stop using this dumb excuse that it was a random glitch they were just “made aware” about Nobody’s buying that. And when you have a crisis of trust, the worst thing you can do is strain credibility further Second is get founders to quit hiding behind a faceless corpo spokesperson, take accountability, give a better explanation, and pay back the money People can eventually forgive “naive first time founders got in over their heads and are humbled” but won’t forgive “these nepo babies really think we’re stupid