<i>This past March, I paid my own way to SXSW. Meanwhile, Vidoop picked up travel for Kveton (by now some kind of VP of Open Technologies), Sontag, Matt Selbie (VP of Marketing), and Scott Blomqist (CTO) who all shacked up in some sweet pad somewhere outside downtown Austin.</i><p>...<p><i>I’m writing this post not because I’m bitter — most startups fail and I knew this when I joined the company [...]</i><p>Seems more like that your typical consumer security / authentication company is going to fail when it pays for four key employees to go to SXSW, especially when it's in dire financial straits.
I have seen this with Scoble and bunch of these guys who don't count themselves part of a company or its decision making - "after" they stop receiving pay check. Even most successful companies mismanage certain things..You can't cherry pick and publish dirty laundry if there is no gross injustice..such things should be highly discouraged because it affects real lives of others
Sheesh. What a mess! I got nauseas just reading about how all-over-the-map the leadership seemed. Why did they need 40 employees? Who's the sucker that funded these people?
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Other than complaining about the mismanagement of the company, was there a point to this that I missed? It seems overly personal to me. The bit about the end about leaving the customers in the dark was perhaps the only part that made sense to write about publically. The rest only seems noteworthy cuz it happened to the author.<p>I could have written an entire book on the ridiculousness I experienced while working at Limewire, but that'd be in bad taste.