How an “investor” from Silicon Valley almost kills our company(medium.com)
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How an “investor” from Silicon Valley almost kills our company
https://medium.com/@javier_dev/how-an-investor-from-silicon-valley-almost-kills-our-company-1f4348407e65
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Wow, this is interesting.
Do you have an email? It would be interesting to talk about this.
By the way, how did you find this post? Was it just a random coincide?
Do you have an email? It would be interesting to talk about this.
By the way, how did you find this post? Was it just a random coincide?
My colleague from chennai mailed it to me. senthil at RailsFactory dot com
Thank you for your post. This behaviour is surprisingly common (something similar albeit less expensive happened to me twice just in 2014, although in both cases I was stupid enough to do work before the contract was signed).
On the upside, nothing like enlightening a friend doing a reference check.
On the upside, nothing like enlightening a friend doing a reference check.
Author of the post here.
Yes, you're right however, as I explained in the post, it was a friend of ours who introduced us to this guy. Our friend would haver never foreseen this outcome.
In other words, all his references seemed to be ok.
Yes, you're right however, as I explained in the post, it was a friend of ours who introduced us to this guy. Our friend would haver never foreseen this outcome.
In other words, all his references seemed to be ok.
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Thanks for your post. We should try to get this out to the major news outlets too. This guy is so f*cked up...why is it that rich people are always so stingy
Lacking knowledge . And Looser people they believe as if they know everything.Eod he is a zero person . GO AND DIE SOMEWHERE.
You guys deserve your money
fuck i hate this investor guy
We at RailsFactory first contacted in December 2012.
Been to the same apartment, same cat, got the walmart reference, and some Jonathan, for the same project.
Did a code review, estimated a API for mobile.
But having operated our business for longer we did some background checks. Some of the story checked out while others did not.
He was not willing to sign a contract and make the advance payment we needed to start the project.
He suggested he can help us by referring us projects with his influence in valley and SF, but we had to pay X thousand dollars per month .
Also he was going for vacation to India.
I requested him to visit our India development centre as Sales & Contracting was not my speciality. He made a condition as he was doing us a favor, we need to host him, so we ended paying for him to visit chennai(to and fro flight tickets from Delhi to Chennai and for the luxury hotel stay).
Feedback I got from India team, we cannot manage him or trust him for the sales end, even development head was sceptical for working with him for amount of profanity he used in his general speech.
I did meet him couple of more times.
Then I was aware of the apartment sale discussions. Then we backed off fully in March 2013.