Posted on 08/13/2016 8:37:30 PM PDT by granite
The former book-keeper for Skully, the futuristic motorcycle helmet maker, filed a lawsuit this week claiming the company squandered $2.5 million on exotic cars and lap dances, casting doubt on Silicon Valley claims that crowd-funding would bury Wall Street.
Skully was the 2013 brainchild of the CEO Marcus Weller and his co-founder/brother Mitch Weller, and wanted to produce motorcycle helmets with digital heads-up display visors that could show speed, RPM, GPS directions and a rearview camera, in the style made famous by Stark Industries in the Ironman movies.
Forming what was supposed to be a Silicon Valley tech startup, Skully produced a “rad” YouTube video to hype a $2,446,824 crowd-funding effort from about 1,000 “Indie GoGo” backers to mass-produce the helmets.
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Two and a half million on exotic cars and lapdances? I’m thinking that they wasted the rest of it.
Easy come, easy go.
What was that about fools and their money?
So what is the difference between this guy and Bernie Madoff?
Looks like he used the money and the funders got nothing not even a helmet.
LOCK HIM UP!
Beat me to it!.........
I bet the Weller Brothers are Democrats.
Ya’Thunk?
or an erection
I think it’s safe to say I like lap dances better than helmets.
What guy doesn’t?!
Ever think you're about to lose it in an 145 MPH power slide in your Lotus? There's a time and place for helmets. Just a little humor for a really sorry day in the affairs of state!
In that case. I do like helmets as MUCH as I like lap dances. But not more.
“The former executive assistant claims that she was instructed to hide “personal expenses” that included personal rent, a weekend Lamborghini rental; a Dodge Viper; a second Dodge Viper, after wrecking the first one; and a $2,000 tab at a strip club.”
I wonder what she did when she was instructed to do these things. Before the bankruptcy and the lawsuit, I mean.
They’re probably all democrats.
Ya' got a point there; because I've never had a lap dance.
Paid for a bunch of them, in the "Millionaires Club" in Windsor, Canada, across the river from Detroit. My skipper asked me to entertain some sailors headed for the Gulf war the next morning! They had a good time. I got a medal.
Took the coffee mess fund to pay the bill!
Badmouthing lap dances is no way to win readers over.
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