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Current and former Dapper Labs staff say bullying and lavish spending by CEO Roham Gharegozlou has hurt the NFT startup amid layoffs and a prolonged bear market

- Dapper Labs CEO and co-founder Roham Gharegozlou's extravagant spending and habit of bullying employees … Tweets: @fintechfrank , @nftethics , @aaronbronsteter , and @evan_van_ness Tweets: Frank Chaparro / @fintechfrank : “The $85 million Beverly Hills mansion Gharegozlou is said to have rented. Private jet travel and luxury accommodations were often marked down as “marketing” expenses.” https://www.theblock.co/... @nftethics : 1/ You reap what you sow. - Dapper Labs' CEO is more concerned with generating hype via celebrities than building. - His trips would generally cost $60,000-$100,000 per flight. - His 5-star hotel suites would sometimes cost as much as $30,000 a night. https://twitter.com/... Aaron Bronsteter / @aaronbronsteter : Interesting piece on the meteoric rise and subsequent fall of Dapper Labs, which is the company behind UFC Strike. https://twitter.com/... Evan Van Ness / @evan_van_ness : When Dapper/Flow/TopShot raised money they were surprisingly candid to several investors that they knew doing their own chain made no sense But it made it easier for bad VCs to give them money and made it easier to dump on retail So this is what we got 👇 https://twitter.com/...

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  • @fintechfrank Frank Chaparro on x
    “The $85 million Beverly Hills mansion Gharegozlou is said to have rented. Private jet travel and luxury accommodations were often marked down as “marketing” expenses.” https://www.theblock.co/...
  • @nftethics @nftethics on x
    1/ You reap what you sow. - Dapper Labs' CEO is more concerned with generating hype via celebrities than building. - His trips would generally cost $60,000-$100,000 per flight. - His 5-star hotel suites would sometimes cost as much as $30,000 a night. https://twitter.com/...
  • @aaronbronsteter Aaron Bronsteter on x
    Interesting piece on the meteoric rise and subsequent fall of Dapper Labs, which is the company behind UFC Strike. https://twitter.com/...
  • @evan_van_ness Evan Van Ness on x
    When Dapper/Flow/TopShot raised money they were surprisingly candid to several investors that they knew doing their own chain made no sense But it made it easier for bad VCs to give them money and made it easier to dump on retail So this is what we got 👇 https://twitter.com/...