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Do you feel the same about Zoom's CEO and Jet.com's CEO?

Probably not, since they have more money and can’t be outlawyered like an intern could.

This is what it boils down to, isn't it? No one bats an eye when an employee of some large company switches to another competitor of noticeable size.

But a single person is obviously easy to stomp into submission, and in this case it appears to have happened out of pettiness, a suspicion that is really brought home by the quick threats and the weird "work for us...no wait you were a bad co-worker anyway!" bait and switch.

Yes! It boils down to "I can pay money, so that you would need to pay money, and since I have more money, you'll go bankrupt quicker."

I'm not all too sure about American laws, but in Europe Amjad's argumentation, especially about "design decisions" is very weak. So it seems, that it's not about even having a stronger legal case. Just the ability to throw money at the problem.

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