Isn't this what one deserves if one tries to peddle something that doesn't work to investors, and then gets hundreds of millions of dollars for it?
For a venture like this the investors would have been contributing only research and development funds, correct? Just because it has failed, doesn't mean that there wasn't anything worth pursuing to begin with.
Judging by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11687660 the answer is 'yes'.
I wonder who's writing the movie script?
Of course there is a subjective line here, but the things that have happened so far seem to be organic, natural, and maybe even predictable responses to the actions that that preceded. That's not revenge, that's just desserts.