Startup bro tries to sabotage academic researcher’s lecture, researcher gets even by jumping on board with his competitor: ‘Now he’s going out of business’

Startups can be notoriously challenging work environments. What might appear to be fun, creative, and cutting edge at first can reveal itself to be something entirely different and more toxic over time. Perhaps all the perks, benefits, and seemingly flexible work hours are not worth it when push comes to shove and when those in charge have to start delivering results to their investors.

In this instance, we have a startup CEO, who was holding an unnecessary grudge against a well-respected academic researcher for winning a prestigious prize that the CEO himself lost a few years prior. It got to the point where the CEO crashed a Zoom lecture that the researcher was hosting, infiltrating the public comments with unnecessarily harsh remarks. So when the opportunity came for the researcher to get even with the CEO, he did it far more covertly and managed to ruin the CEO's entire business and career in the process.

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This CEO didn’t know what was coming. The researcher found a way to make the CEO’s business product better and cheaper, but he decided to share his experiments with a competitor in the market. Long story short: that competitor quickly began to take over the entire field, leaving the CEO completely unable to compete. One has to wonder if he ever figured out who was behind this…
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