Can someone explain the "plot" here? I read the article and have no clue what the actual accusations are.<p>> Grosz had formed an early-stage venture firm called Mechanism Ventures. (...)
> “I knew he wasn’t up to any good at that point in time,” Du Val told CNBC.<p>Starting a company is suspicious?<p>> Part of the scheme involved Grosz’s plan to create a company called Cavalry, which was designed to directly compete with Toptal.<p>Is starting a competing company not allowed, somehow?<p>> Cavalry poached several executives and top employees from Toptal to weaken the company, according to Du Val’s lawsuit.<p>Is hiring from competition illegal? Genuine question. Seems like another company is being sued for poaching as well<p>> The negative coverage, the suit says, led Toptal to lose contracts with current and future clients.<p>I'd love to see some examples. Apparently the judge decided that the negative coverage cost Toptal about $500k (as per compensatory damages). Is this a lot? Wikipedia says Toptal had $100mm revenue in 2016.<p>I expected a bit more meat in an article titled `How...`