- Company almost certainly juiced its usage numbers, potentially by buying users to inflate its customers revenues, so it could use those numbers to convince new customers
- Used a single deal with a large company (Forever 21) to sell VCs on the vision, while under the hood that deal was clearly failing
- ex CEO picked twitter fights constantly, to the point of calling into question whether he was even capable of focusing on execution
- Biggest competitor (Fast) exploded even before the market crash.
- Offered employees a four day work week while claiming rapid exponential growth
- Offered employees PERSONALLY guaranteed loans to help them exercise the options
- Raised at $11B valuation with 100x forward revenue multiples.
- Cash raised is currently 6-8x revenue multiple, meaning valuation over next 12m makes employee options worthless
- I've never seen the technology used on any website, and I am a frequent online shopper.
Real talk, is this fin-tech's latest Theranos?