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Ask HN: Should I inform investors that my startup employer is a scam?
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Re: Ask HN: Should I inform investors that my startup employer is a scam?
#12What's stopping you from working another job at the same time?
It sounds like there isn't much work to be done and even if you are found out I don't think they have enough motivation to care.
Re: Ask HN: Should I inform investors that my startup employer is a scam?
#13Unless you want to do more business specifically with said investors, I would not recommend this. Whistle blowers almost always suffer and in this situation you have no moral obligation to the public but rather to some private figures. If I were you, I'd enjoy having an easy job. That said, is your company hiring?
After the "scary market downturn" they started hiring only people from India, Nigeria, Pakistan, other South Asian countries in order to avoid paying six figures.
Re: Ask HN: Should I inform investors that my startup employer is a scam?
#14My gut reaction is no. It does sound like a dumpster fire so I would leave. You feel a moral obligation to inform investors which is good but be open to the possibillity that there's more going on than you are aware of so things might not be as black & white as they appear in practical and moral terms.
Re: Ask HN: Should I inform investors that my startup employer is a scam?
#15Go ahead and try it, I assure you that will be the end of your job there. Listen to others here, just leave. You will not break into that fuct up situation, you cannot improve it, no one will listen to you, and if you blow the whistle you'll be done.
Well this isn't about my job. I didn't mention once the problem was me losing my job or anything.
Re: Ask HN: Should I inform investors that my startup employer is a scam?
#16Leaving deprives it of your skills and experience that alone will damage them. That's probably enough.
Re: Ask HN: Should I inform investors that my startup employer is a scam?
#17What's stopping you from working another job at the same time? It sounds like there isn't much work to be done and even if you are found out I don't think they have enough motivation to care.
Copying from another comment in this thread (apologies for doing that)
"Well this isn't about my job. I didn't mention once the problem was me losing my job or anything."
Re: Ask HN: Should I inform investors that my startup employer is a scam?
#18Who says the 'investors' are not in on the scam?
Even if you were to blow the whistle, do it after you have left for greener pastures. By then you wont care but perhaps you will ...
Re: Ask HN: Should I inform investors that my startup employer is a scam?
#19I would just find another job, let them crash and burn on their own
Well this is another discussion. I can do just that separately. But it doesn't seem fair to the employees who stay and believe the company's vaporware of making value and have their equity worth millions in an indefinite future time?
How do the employees not know, if the situation is so bad for so long? They know and they still choose to stay. So they are not the OP’s responsibility.
Best option is to just leave. OP can still talk to the employees that he is friendly with - maybe that will help them take the situation seriously
Re: Ask HN: Should I inform investors that my startup employer is a scam?
#20I would just find another job, let them crash and burn on their own
Well this is another discussion. I can do just that separately. But it doesn't seem fair to the employees who stay and believe the company's vaporware of making value and have their equity worth millions in an indefinite future time?
Just warn your coworkers tbh