This story just gets crazier and crazier. Scam Sethi has taken number of steps this weekend which defy rationale.
- Sam privately apologizes to Oliver Starr and promises to pay Marc Orchant’s family along with making public apologies to Blognation’s editors especially to Oliver. Sam lied about having fired Oliver from Blognation two months ago as he did about firing me. In what has become expected behavior from Sam, there was no action taken on his promises. Marc’s family has not been paid and no public apologies have been issued. Instead…
- Sethi has admitted that the Secora term sheet sent to TechCrunch came from his gmail account.
- Sethi has admitted that he impersonated one of his blog editors to leave a comment on TechCrunch.
- Sethi has locked out a top performing Blognation editor only because they communicated with Oliver Starr and me.
Blognation under Sethi’s leadership is moving from being a great idea and a strong competitor to the top blog companies like TechCrunch and Read/Write Web to becoming a through-the-looking-glass experience.
Tomorrow we’ll learn whether Blognation’s editors will finally be paid or whether there’s a new dimension to Sethi’s imagination.
December 9th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Sam has form. He told lots of people that he had secured funding and even posted this lie on the Blognation about us page which is still cached on Google which you can find by typing in- Blognation about us - and clicking on cache. Here’s what the about page used to say:
‘What is the business model behind blognation?
blognation is backed by undisclosed venture capital funding, by vendor advertising and through affiliate advertising.’
What this should have said is:
‘What is the business model behind blognation?
blognation is backed unwittingly by a group of bloggers who are working for free.’
Sam is a Walter Mitty character - pure and simple. I feel very sorry for those still working for him. They should stop chasing their loses and realise that they have been scammed.