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Puzzle Financial CEO spends Thanksgiving hiding his federal ban on Wikipedia(patrickstoica.com)
5 points by pstoica 10mo ago|1 comments
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by pstoica 10mo ago
I'm a former software engineer at Puzzle Financial (Oct 2020 - May 2023; puzzle.io). Until today, Sasha Orloff has not acknowledged me publicly, relying on silence and whistleblower retaliation via Orrick. Last night, Thanksgiving eve,
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by pstoica 3y ago
It was before. They didn't acknowledge it and put the RTO in effect. (Second-hand account.)
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by pstoica 3y ago
preach. it feels like it's only getting worse no matter the size of the company. people fundamentally don't understand creativity.
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by pstoica 4y ago
Check out https://mailing.run . Similar project that can be embedded or run as a standalone API. Also uses MJML which is indispensable for cross-client compatibility. Another tip, I highly recommend a CSS minifier which inlines s
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by pstoica 6y ago
Decent salary, but that's not the point. I'm distraught to realize I spent 5 months on nothing, and it's not something I'm proud to have or explain on my CV. It's cruel how much money these people throw away, but we
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by pstoica 6y ago
Hell no, a $400 million valuation made no sense, but he kept feeding us these lies.
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by pstoica 6y ago
The SEC tried investigating since December 2019, possibly earlier. Again, public information.
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by pstoica 6y ago
We can't fathom it either!
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by pstoica 6y ago
Anyway folx, don't invest in a "hot startup" you've never heard of.
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by pstoica 6y ago
I was someone at the bottom of the totem pole who tried to do my job and ask what questions I could. I certainly noticed a lack of analytics or basic traffic/revenue/customer data. Retroactively, it was obvious that this was essen
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by pstoica 6y ago
This is simply not the case. Adam lied to everyone's face for years. Read the documents and financial statements if you think this is just a little "flex" every couple of slides.
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by pstoica 6y ago
I didn't have all the information that's coming out now. People tried. Read the article. The last investment was finalized days after someone raised concerns after realizing we didn't contact 70% of our customers.
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by pstoica 6y ago
Ex-employee here. Adam Rogas is a pathological liar and sociopath who dragged this out for years. I don't know how multiple audits failed to raise red flags over multiple $999,999.99 fake Stripe payouts. He literally inserted millions