Re:Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp
by avree on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:26PM
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Hopefully this reply doesn't get me in trouble on HN...
But I strongly disagree with you.
Collaborative Fund led the Series C round. Jay Kim was a fairly fresh venture investor at the time; the model and operation of NXC/Nexon's investment arm was quite different to the traditional VC. Based off the timings, it's highly likely this is the VC who the e-mail refers to.
Re:Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp
by anon_usr_134 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:51PM
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https://twitter.com/ricburton/status/1316945844315238401?s=2...
sounds like Craig Shapiro is the likely culprit here
Re:Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp
by avree on Friday October 16, 2020 @08:28AM
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Very doubtful. I think you misunderstood the tweet; the person who posted that tweet is asking the founder and leader of Collaborative Fund to be responsible for the actions of his partners. Craig isn't the one who was sitting on the board.
Re:Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp
by anon_usr_134 on Friday October 16, 2020 @05:43PM
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nope. He confirmed its him but denies the accusations
https://twitter.com/cshapiro/status/1317212694529802242?s=20.
Re:Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp
by ascar on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:32PM
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I agree. I also tried to figure this out and couldn't narrow it down to a single person.
However, while the lead investor companies are established, the "partners" of the lead investors listed on crunchbase do seem to fit the fresh investor note. Especially since Series B and C were 5-6 years ago.
Re:Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp
by tschwimmer on Thursday October 15, 2020 @08:01PM
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Mmm, yeah. I wasn't considering the series C because the timelines didn't really add up, but I took a second look and it actually fits the points in the letter.
Re:Tuesday was my last day as CEO of CircleUp
by stickfigure on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:11PM
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An extra bit of complication seems to be that CircleUp itself seems to be some sort of VC-like operation, so at times I wasn't quite sure if some of the funds they were raising were for CircleUp or their clients.
Time to rewatch Inception.
Theoretically this would be easy to figure out if you had a yearly listing of board members which I imagine should be public, but that doesn't appear available publicly. The only listing of the board I can find is this news article [0] from 2015, but again, none of the people listed there can be definitively identified as the one being referenced.
As further evidence of how murky this is, several people in the comments below have named different people as the person being referenced. One commenter has edited their comment to change the person being accused.
If the author of this email wanted to point a finger at a specific person, they did a bad job.
[0]https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2015/01/60650-lending-club-...