Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

I saved Ascentium in the crisis with a Hail Mary play that should be the subject of grad school discussions. Amid cancer and divorce.

But afterward, then the investors pulled out the cash and set us back to zero so that the company was broke again, betraying my agreements with Microsoft and the acquired party. It was then that I realized their intention had been to take control by forcing it under.

I quit and worked a severance package that was in my favor.

What is the rumor the gossips started? ( I know who they were) That I took the money myself somehow. ( emphasis on somehow ). I wish it was true. But you know, audited financial statements and tax returns put those kind of idiotic fantasies in the same camp as all other gossip.

Now I always look at it from this perspective. Do you really think if I wanted to fuck people over, they would even know it? Seriously.

Ask Sidney Golub. Ask Elliot Koenig. Ask Wayne Seminoff. I participated in ruining these people. Golub via the fbi/treasury. Koenig through a racketeering suit. Seminoff via the IRS. In fact. I was building a career out of infiltrating and reporting scumbags. And if I had been married to a less moral woman I would have continued that tradition of using tech to catch scumbags. It was fulfilling. It want economically rewarding. But it was fulfilling.

So I returned to entrepreneurship. We did excel data. I did red-tech. I did DDI, then c-hub, then Ascentium.

We operate on different wavelengths given our different levels of experience. But one has to remember that mastery of some niche is not transferrable to the broader sphere. Hence why it’s is always best to work with people with similar levels of experience. Hence why one should always assume one is naive and ignorant rather wise and cunning.