There are lots of people in prison who have interesting opinions about the “real reason” they’re there too. Why don’t you print their stories, verbatim, as journalism? After all, they’re “defendants, so they should know”, as you put it.

Sure, with such people I am very eager to pitch my biz to Benchmark. Right!

“Had the merger not gone through, and the market not turned around, eBay may never have bought the company. For the founders to come back and sue years later, saying they were cheated, well, it does smack a bit disingenuous. Now, it turns, out the case was settled by eBay largely because Tolia’s resume screw-up had colored things so much, says Gurley. Gurley was a defendant in the lawsuit, and so should know.”

I don’t think I’m the only one who has noticed that your articles have a consistent (and pathetic) spin that’s biased against entrepreneurs and towards VCs. It shows through very clearly in this article as well as others, e.g. on thefunded.

Briefly your attitude appears to be that while entrepreneurs should go out of their way to be “fair” to VCs, VCs have no obligation to entrepreneurs other than what is on paper. Since you’ve not heard the founders’ side of the story, it’s presumptuous of you to call them “disingenuous”.