Which is simply not true. All he was is a guy on the skype who gave tasks to illustrators and writers.
"Giving tasks to X and Y" is the job description for pretty much all of the top 0.01% highest paid professionals in the world. And even besides this, Mihai was also responsible for setting up interviews, doing a significant share of the illustrative work himself, handling shipping (with his girlfriend), and much more.
I asked to propose another solution if admittedly high hourly rates are not acceptable and suggested that those could be waived should there be some other reasonable agreement regarding my exit and equity buyout. This matter was discussed and understood. But no action were taken and further work was DEMANDED from me.
Most of the items on that invoice were not "demanded" from you. We both expressed our disagreement with the 80.00/hour rate, and you simply continued on doing what you were going to do anyway as a matter of fiduciary duty as a director but charging for it.
demands to pay cash and/or equity to his girlfriend while denying that if someone else is doing similar work they should be paid too.
Mihai never denied this. His whole point had been that his girlfriend deserves cash and/or equity because Vladimir's wife had already been paid cash/equity.
Informing the company that I cannot spend any more time on all the pointless drama where Mihai Alisie was derailing one negotiation and action plan after another by constant abuse, insults and paranoia
In September, when the situation around MNW was unfolding, Mihai and I both realized that we had been far too lax in terms of keeping tabs on what was going on, and all that Mihai tried to do was take back control. Following the MNW affair, Vladimir and his wife controlled 67% of the Board of Directors and had more shares than anyone else - even the founder of the company. Furthermore, Mihai noticed all of the various "IT" charges that had been billed. It was indeed a mistake on the part of both of us that we did not keep a close enough eye on how things were going and let all of that happen, but when he finally saw what was going on he simply tried to rectify the situation. The fact is, there are plenty of instances in small business where one partner tries to use various underhanded tactics to edge himself into a more favorable position versus the other, and Mihai's "paranoia" over the fact that one person had weaved his way into something close to de facto control over the entire company was hardly unreasonable. Claiming that anything but complete trust constitutes obstructionism, on the other hand, is - in fact, it's often listed as a classic warning sign in "how to detect that you're dealing with a scammer" pages. So that attitude was not exactly a good way of mitigating the problems that we had.
I personally won't comment on the finances; I'm fairly removed from the financial situation myself and I will leave it to other people in the company who are much more capable of stating the facts there than I am.
