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I did a search here just to figure out what Better.com did without visiting their web page, and the results are quite a saga: > Simple, Online Mortgage – Bette

• princevegeta89 5y ago
  Thanks for doing this!
• ergocoder 5y ago
  At first I was defending this CEO as there is no good way to lay off employees. "Better.com CEO Vishal Garg Threatened to Burn His Business Partner Alive" Huh what the fuck?
• z2 5y ago
  > Mortgages, Fraud Claims And 'Dumb Dolphins': A Tangled Past Haunts Better.com CEO Vishal Garg (1 year ago)
• mfrye0 5y ago
  I was tempted to do the same to my business partner. After he bailed on me the day before we were going to close a funding round, among other things. I think about that quote from Elon sometimes, that starting a company is like eating glass and staring into the abyss.
  • Kina 5y ago
    I think your situation is different. > His former business partner and college friend, Raza Khan, claims that Garg improperly moved $3 million from a software company the two men started to his personal bank accounts, and then used stolen technology to help build Better. Garg denies those claims and is countersuing, in a dispute so bitter that during a deposition Garg threatened to burn his former friend alive. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2020/11/20/mortgages-fraud-claims-and-dumb-dolphins-a-tangled-past-haunts-bettercom-ceo-vishal-garg/?sh=160dba2a10f4 https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2020/11/20/mortgages...
    • mfrye0 5y ago
      Yeah, I was exaggerating. While my situation sucked, it definitely wasn't as bad is this.
• chirau 5y ago
  Don't forget the wild email he sent to one of Better.com's largest investors. You can't make this stuff up. Link: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpgkm/bettercom-ceo-called-top-investor-sewage-said-making-company-money-would-earn-employees-freedom https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpgkm/bettercom-ceo-called-...
  • yosito 5y ago
    Jesus. How did this guy ever manage to become a CEO?
    • spywaregorilla 5y ago
      being aggressive is a pretty good strat to being successful, dickish or otherwise.
    • wly_cdgr 5y ago
      Why is this surprising? Elon Musk for one is known to act like this. Many other CEOs as well
  • schleck8 5y ago
    Wow...
  • iab 5y ago
    One of the wildest things I have ever read
  • rkk3 5y ago
    Can't blame him, those investors sound pretty terrible...
  • sekura 5y ago
    I don't think he is any different the vast majority of CEOs/Entrepreneurs. He just got caught being bad.
    • IMTDb 5y ago
• antisthenes 5y ago
  Sounds like his mental health issues finally caught up with him and resulted in involuntary burnout.
  • newsbinator 5y ago
    I'm not sure it's mental health issues so much as "got away with being a bad person to work with and then couldn't anymore". Looking in from the outside, it seems like he kept more or less succeeding (financially, in the eyes of friends/family, etc), while doing dodgier things and insulting more people, which spurred him to keep going along as before. Eventually he flew too close to the sun.
    • disqard 5y ago
      Your appraisal seems accurate to me.