From: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scuttle https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scuttle >scuttle verb(1) 1: to cut a hole through the bott

From: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scuttle https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scuttle >scuttle verb(1) 1: to cut a hole through the bottom, deck, or side of (a ship) specifically : to sink or attempt to sink by making holes through the bottom The actions of these people make you to give up on Occam's razor in disbelief. Sometimes they're the owner of the company who are doing everything someone who'd want to sink a ship would do. The worst is when the ship was amazing (generating revenue like crazy, great reputation, top notch record, satisfied clients). Also, promise people equity then change the goal post by introducing new variables, haggling over everything, and attempting to screw them in every sentence (for instance, change the vesting period in one sentence, add a condition in the next sentence, claim they've had no impact on the company in the next, threaten to fire everyone in the next, add yet another condition in the next, tell people you can't give them the equity you promised because you promised someone else and do that for the other person too). That's, in essence, how to fuck up your own company lightning fast.