Corgi shuts down website that ranked its female employees by looks
Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees
Corgi, an AI insurance startup known for its 24-hour cafes, forced the takedown of CorgiGirls.com, a site that let users vote on the attractiveness of its female employees. The site, live for three days, was allegedly created by Sebastian Mandal, a San Francisco startup founder, who scraped photos from LinkedIn. Corgi's legal team sent cease-and-desist emails, and the site was removed after attracting over 200,000 visitors. The company denied any involvement and condemned the site as demeaning.
“It was all these people we work with every day, compared to each other based on attractiveness, which is really demeaning.”
- an0malous
This is the YC startup that allegedly stole a bunch of code from Papermark:
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/corgi-the-buzzy-y-combinat...
- HaloZero
The guy who created it (Sebastian Mandal) has already taken down his site, his linkedin, and protected his Twitter/X. Guess he's getting slammed for his gross choice here.
I was really hoping for a fun story about someone using a corgi to disrupt a social media campaign though.
- jjcm
Good that it got taken down. I'm not surprised it was made. The sleaze kinda attracts sleaze. It really feels like this headline is, "Startup known for parading young attractive women takes down website that drew too much attention to the fact it was parading young attractive women."
It'll be interesting to see how things go for this company. I feel like there will be some interesting books written about it a decade from now.
- gkoberger
This title really implies Corgi (or someone associated with the company) made the site. It was a shitty third-party with no association who did it.
- randycupertino
> For its three days of existence, CorgiGirls.com displayed photos of Corgi’s female employees in side-by-side comparisons, letting visitors vote on who they thought was more attractive. The website now shows a domain name error.
> The website appears to have been set up by Sebastian Mandal, a San Francisco-based startup startup founder who describes himself on LinkedIn as a college dropout and a professional Minecraft player. On Monday evening, Mandal said in a now-deleted tweet that he had purchased the CorgiGirls.com domain, asking his 279 followers, “what should i do with it? have an idea, but it may not be politically correct.”
> He then tagged Mark Zuckerberg to ask for his input, presumably as a nod to Facemash, a similar “hot-or-not”-style website that the Meta chief built in 2003 during his sophomore year at Harvard.