On Sunday, 21-year-old Chungin “Roy” Lee announced that he has collected $ 5.3 million in seed funds from Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures for his start, Cluely, offering a tool to “deceive everything”.
The beginning was born after Lee posted in a viral thread X that he was suspended from Columbia University after he and his co -founder developed a tool to deceive work interviews for software engineers.
This tool, originally called the interview coder, is now part of their start -up in San Francisco. It offers its users the opportunity to “cheat” for things such as exams, sales calls and work interviews thanks to a hidden window that cannot be seen from the interviewer or proof.
Cluely has published a manifesto by comparing itself to inventions such as calculator and magic, which were originally derived as “fraud”.
Cluely also published a video produced but polarizing, released to Lee using a hidden assistant to him (without success) to lie to a woman for his age, and even his knowledge of art, on a date at a decorated restaurant:
While some appreciated the video for the abduction of people’s attention, others deducted it as a reminder of the Sci-Fi “Black Mirror” television show:
Lee, who is CEO of Cluely, told Techcrunch the means of fraud he exceeded $ 3 million in the ERA earlier this month.
The other starting co-founder is another 21-year-old former Columbia student Neel Shanmugam, who is COO of Cluely. Shanmugam was also embraced in disciplinary procedures in Colombia on the vehicle. Both co -founders came out of Colombia, the University student newspaper reported last week. Colombia refused to comment, citing the laws of student intimacy.
Cluely began as a tool for developers to deceive Leetcode’s knowledge, a platform for coding questions that some in software engineering circuits – including Cluely founders, of course – consider outdated and waste of time.
Lee says he was able to grab a practice with Amazon using the deception tool. Amazon refused to comment on Lee’s special issue for Techcrunch, but said her candidates for work should admit they would not use unauthorized tools during the interview process.
Cluely is not the only controversial start of he launched this month. Previously, a famous scholar of he announced his beginning with the declared mission of replacing all human workers everywhere, causing a Brouhaha to X.
