> On the other hand, my first self-funded startup got destroyed by a VC funded venture. They had a worse product but far better marketing and they used every dirty trick in book to tarnish my company’s reputation.
Would you be willing to give a few more details about what happened? I'm not interested in the identities of the companies or people, just interested in a high level overview of what happened. We don't hear these stories often.
- Hired a journalist on some mid-size news company to tarnish the company’s reputation. I never imagined they would bother to do this, but I was wrong.
- Used an APT for hire but I don’t believe they did succeed , still it is quite insane. I was lucky enough to catch a targeted rootkit but issue was quickly remediated. I’ll eventually find a consultant to analyse the Win 11 rootkit. They were definitely not script kiddies.
- Some black hat SEO and shills for hire, but that is expected.
I’m really surprised by hired journalist / APT aspect. Something I never imagined would happen, but apparently it does happen.
Would you be willing to give a few more details about what happened? I'm not interested in the identities of the companies or people, just interested in a high level overview of what happened. We don't hear these stories often.