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I read this story when I woke up earlier today so I was a little bleary-eyed and may have missed something, but I don't know how accurate that is. We know people didn't get paid but idk if we can be certain the company didn't get any money whatsoever.

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I based the assumption off of this anecdote:

> But no deals were ever finalised. By February 2021, not a single client contract had been signed.

Yeah, but there's no reason to think some weren't stacking up on his desk and managing an agency successfully working average contracts wasn't what he was after.

Right, but the point remains that the company made no money. It’s a lot of effort to do what he did and to not sign 1 contract especially as employee’s 6mo paychecks were coming up is still surprising to me.

So I read this too but it sounded like it was based on accounts from employees BBC could get hold of. I guess it's possible it's true but I find it hard to believe such a business could exist for a couple of months with absolutely no sales whatsoever.

I kind of suspect he was doing it all to build his personal profile as a potential CEO or management "influencer". If it wound down quietly with no contracts as an explanation for no hires, perhaps he would have already been on to a hefty salary somewhere chaotic but real leaving his fake partner winding things down.

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