> certainly unethical and indicative of someone who should not be trusted in a business relationship Not necessarily. What if a major investor pulled out and t

> certainly unethical and indicative of someone who should not be trusted in a business relationship Not necessarily. What if a major investor pulled out and they aren't going to have the capital available to hire this guy? What if hiring him meant not paying people who had been promised salaries after working for free? What if they could have hired him but others would have had to be fired? They certainly made a mistake, but we don't know why they did what they did. It's unlikely to be malicious "Let's just screw this guy", and far more likely to be for reasons that each one of us, if we were in their shoes, would consider to be very good.