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Situation sounds like to me is: CEO keeps in touch with beast mode 10x'er intern who both impressed him and needed to be kept at arms length. Beast mode inter

Situation sounds like to me is: CEO keeps in touch with beast mode 10x'er intern who both impressed him and needed to be kept at arms length. Beast mode intern flirts with the idea of launching a competing startup under the guise of innocent open source project and transparency with a passing mention of project in email. CEO realizes he needs to shut intern down otherwise any communication that looks supportive might be used against him later on. Intern realizes the jig is up. Writes apology to CEO out of fear and discomfort. CEO responds that he doesn't want anything further to do with him. Beast mode intern exercises final option to write a blog post attempting to gain community support. Something or other like that...

jamestimmins 5y ago
Except nothing in the OP's work or correspondence suggests any competitive aspirations, so unless other information comes to light, this summary is a fantasy.
- whymauri 5y ago
  Regardless of whether it's true, one has to admit it sounds like a sideplot from Halt and Catch Fire, lol.
- johnwheeler 5y ago
  Of course it doesn't.
  - kbelder 5y ago
    The lack of evidence is a clear indication!
wernercd 5y ago
> Beast mode intern flirts with the idea of launching a competing startup under the guise of innocent open source project and transparency with mention in email. Amjad... is that you?
mitchill 5y ago
Agreed. It's one thing to do this to learn more about software development, it's another to give it a name and a website. They're really leaning into the "I'm just an intern without commercial intents" narrative, but regardless of their intent, it's still incredibly unethical to create something similar your previous employer's IP and market it independently.
- Gualdrapo 5y ago
  Then why would OP tell them about that? Sounds to me like the latest thing you'd do
  - mitchill 5y ago
    Likely OP didn't think it was unethical, which is why they shared, but that doesn't change the fact that it was.
- eulenteufel 5y ago
  >incredibly unethical to create something similar your previous employer's IP and market it independently. Can you explain why you think it is unethical? Provided no noncompete clauses or other previous agreements were violated.
vickychijwani 5y ago
> Beast mode intern flirts with the idea of launching a competing startup under the guise of innocent open source project From the article: > I’m not a business person. I’m just an open-source dev who likes to build weird things for fun. (If you doubt my track record of building things that don’t make money, just check out the list on my website, and note the conspicuous absence of anything that’s ever made a cent of revenue.) This doesn't make your interpretation impossible, but it's certainly very unlikely.
samatman 5y ago
Yep, that's the first thing I do when I'm running off with my former company's IP to launch a competitor: send an email to my erstwhile CEO with a link and ask him "so what do you think?"
- clevergadget 5y ago
  I shouldn't have had to scroll so far to read this

jamestimmins 5y ago

Except nothing in the OP's work or correspondence suggests any competitive aspirations, so unless other information comes to light, this summary is a fantasy.

whymauri 5y ago
Regardless of whether it's true, one has to admit it sounds like a sideplot from Halt and Catch Fire, lol.
johnwheeler 5y ago
Of course it doesn't.
- kbelder 5y ago
  The lack of evidence is a clear indication!

wernercd 5y ago

> Beast mode intern flirts with the idea of launching a competing startup under the guise of innocent open source project and transparency with mention in email. Amjad... is that you?

mitchill 5y ago

Agreed. It's one thing to do this to learn more about software development, it's another to give it a name and a website. They're really leaning into the "I'm just an intern without commercial intents" narrative, but regardless of their intent, it's still incredibly unethical to create something similar your previous employer's IP and market it independently.

Gualdrapo 5y ago
Then why would OP tell them about that? Sounds to me like the latest thing you'd do
- mitchill 5y ago
  Likely OP didn't think it was unethical, which is why they shared, but that doesn't change the fact that it was.
eulenteufel 5y ago
>incredibly unethical to create something similar your previous employer's IP and market it independently. Can you explain why you think it is unethical? Provided no noncompete clauses or other previous agreements were violated.

vickychijwani 5y ago

> Beast mode intern flirts with the idea of launching a competing startup under the guise of innocent open source project From the article: > I’m not a business person. I’m just an open-source dev who likes to build weird things for fun. (If you doubt my track record of building things that don’t make money, just check out the list on my website, and note the conspicuous absence of anything that’s ever made a cent of revenue.) This doesn't make your interpretation impossible, but it's certainly very unlikely.

samatman 5y ago

Yep, that's the first thing I do when I'm running off with my former company's IP to launch a competitor: send an email to my erstwhile CEO with a link and ask him "so what do you think?"

clevergadget 5y ago
I shouldn't have had to scroll so far to read this