To be fair that was actually an issue he brought up- he said that several of their Ukrainian staff could not come to the US because they were not willing to lie on their visa application.
The CEO is a former YC founder and is using the resources that are provided to YC founders to help start VGS. You'd be amazed the cool stuff former YC founders get access too.
I interviewed and was offered a job at this company. I turned it down because they had some of the most morally bankrupt leadership I have ever seen in a startup. Frankly, it made me less likely to interview with YC companies at all.
Just a quick list of giant red flags-
1. They are violating visa laws by having their employees in the Ukraine lie on their applications and say they are coming into the US for tourism instead of business.
2. The Ukrainian developers they get out here are kept on their Ukrainian salary, with a small stipend for housing. So they get to live in the bay area on a eastern european salary.
3. Their CEO actually bragged to me about how little they were paying the only female developer they had in the office. He thought it was hilarious.
4. When they made an offer they refused to tell me how many shares had been issued for the company or what percentage the offer included, making their offer completely impossible to decipher. It was also about 15% lower than the numbers they had discussed with me beforehand.
If I was an investor in this company I would demand the removal of the CEO and put their CTO in charge.