Monday, 17 April 2017

The CEO of a $3.7 billion startup is allegedly firing employees right before their stock options vest, report says

The CEO of a $3.7 billion startup is allegedly firing employees right before their stock options vest, report says

Employees at a highly valued Silicon Valley startup are saying the company has a brutish CEO who has humiliated them and fired people right before their stock options vested, according to an explosive exposé of Tanium by Bloomberg's Lizette Chapman and Sarah McBride. Orion Hindawi is the CEO of Tanium, a startup he created with his father a decade ago. Today it is one of the highest-valued security startups in the tech industry. It raised $287 million of venture investment at a valuation of $3.7 billion, much of that coming from the VC powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/The-CEO-of-a-3-7-billion-startup-is-allegedly-11072615.php?source=Snapzu

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