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Originally Posted by WhatsUpGuys
Fernando said when he gave the 3 month notice he was leaving that he got a letter from Matt on skype basically saying"if you leave us we will hurt your reputation, you will get nowhere in this businessworld after we're done with you" If this is true, that is so ridiculous and extremely unprofessional
This is not what the letter said, but it is close to what it said.
Our wording was that if he decided to abandon our customers to start a competing business, it would be a stab in the back and that this kind of decision would ruin his reputation in the poker world.
While aggressive, its also true. We are going to have to announce what happened as a company, and then he is going to move forward with his competing business. People will remember what happened at Upswing and I think its important to highlight it before he leaves.
It is different to say, if you do this scummy thing then it will hurt your rep, then it is to say, if you do this scummy thing, I will personally hurt your rep.
I think its an important difference because its not a threat from us to go after him should he decide to try to cannibalize our existing user base by starting a competing company while under contract.