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Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn’t steal an open source product
Key takeaways
- Corgi denies this, telling Tech Crunch.
- But there were reasons why people believed the initial allegation, which was made by Papermark co-founder Marc Seitz on X, concerning Corgi s newly released product called Dataroom.
- 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.
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.
Corgi denies this, telling Tech Crunch. No code was used from Papermark.
But there were reasons why people believed the initial allegation, which was made by Papermark co-founder Marc Seitz on X, concerning Corgi s newly released product called Dataroom.
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